Pascoe Sabido
@pascoesabido.bsky.social
Exposing the power of corporate lobbying in the EU for Corporate Europe Observatory @corporateeurope.bsky.social, esp around climate, but all diatribes my own.
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🚨 DOCU SCREENING ALERT!
The EU's "green" hydrogen dream is a nightmare for communities in the Global South. CEO’s powerful new docu reveals the truth.
🎬 Watch the trailer and catch the premiere of the Scramble for Hydrogen in South Africa!
🧵 👇
The EU's "green" hydrogen dream is a nightmare for communities in the Global South. CEO’s powerful new docu reveals the truth.
🎬 Watch the trailer and catch the premiere of the Scramble for Hydrogen in South Africa!
🧵 👇
November 5, 2025 at 10:52 AM
🚨 DOCU SCREENING ALERT!
The EU's "green" hydrogen dream is a nightmare for communities in the Global South. CEO’s powerful new docu reveals the truth.
🎬 Watch the trailer and catch the premiere of the Scramble for Hydrogen in South Africa!
🧵 👇
The EU's "green" hydrogen dream is a nightmare for communities in the Global South. CEO’s powerful new docu reveals the truth.
🎬 Watch the trailer and catch the premiere of the Scramble for Hydrogen in South Africa!
🧵 👇
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PREMIERE DETAILS:
🗓️: Thurs, 27 Nov
⏰: 7-9 pm CET
📍: Cinema Vendôme, Brussels
🔗: corporateeurope.org/en/event/4
With @botengam.bsky.social @pascoesabido.bsky.social
Co-hosted by @lavamediabe.bsky.social
Don't miss it.
🗓️: Thurs, 27 Nov
⏰: 7-9 pm CET
📍: Cinema Vendôme, Brussels
🔗: corporateeurope.org/en/event/4
With @botengam.bsky.social @pascoesabido.bsky.social
Co-hosted by @lavamediabe.bsky.social
Don't miss it.
November 5, 2025 at 10:52 AM
PREMIERE DETAILS:
🗓️: Thurs, 27 Nov
⏰: 7-9 pm CET
📍: Cinema Vendôme, Brussels
🔗: corporateeurope.org/en/event/4
With @botengam.bsky.social @pascoesabido.bsky.social
Co-hosted by @lavamediabe.bsky.social
Don't miss it.
🗓️: Thurs, 27 Nov
⏰: 7-9 pm CET
📍: Cinema Vendôme, Brussels
🔗: corporateeurope.org/en/event/4
With @botengam.bsky.social @pascoesabido.bsky.social
Co-hosted by @lavamediabe.bsky.social
Don't miss it.
Are you heading to Belém for #COP30 🇧🇷? If so, keep an eye out for fossil fuel lobbyists - and message me with any evidence!
The #KickBigPollutersOut campaign will be there in force, so look out for them too.
The #KickBigPollutersOut campaign will be there in force, so look out for them too.
A letter signed by more than 100 organisations was sent to Hoekstra, asking not to bring fossil fuel lobbyists to COP30 🇧🇷
👍 Promisingly, there were no lobbyists in the official EU delegation last year
👎EU Member States still brought 113 lobbyists
✉️: fossilfreepolitics.org/news/cop30-l...
#COP30
👍 Promisingly, there were no lobbyists in the official EU delegation last year
👎EU Member States still brought 113 lobbyists
✉️: fossilfreepolitics.org/news/cop30-l...
#COP30
More than 100 organisations tell Hoekstra not to bring fossil fuel lobbyists to COP30! - Fossil Free Politics
As COP30 approaches, we're now calling on the EU's climate chief, Commissioner Wopka Hoekstra, to not bring fossil fuel lobbyists to the UN climate talks again this year, and to push member states to ...
fossilfreepolitics.org
November 5, 2025 at 10:53 AM
Are you heading to Belém for #COP30 🇧🇷? If so, keep an eye out for fossil fuel lobbyists - and message me with any evidence!
The #KickBigPollutersOut campaign will be there in force, so look out for them too.
The #KickBigPollutersOut campaign will be there in force, so look out for them too.
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UK energy companies made £30bn profit.
Gas extractors £10.8bn
Electricity generators £9.7bn
Transmission/Distribution £6.8 bn
Retail suppliers £2.8 bn
£500 a yr profit from average household
Bills up 42% since 2021.
Direct cause of inflation and poverty.
128,000 people a year die in fuel poverty.
Gas extractors £10.8bn
Electricity generators £9.7bn
Transmission/Distribution £6.8 bn
Retail suppliers £2.8 bn
£500 a yr profit from average household
Bills up 42% since 2021.
Direct cause of inflation and poverty.
128,000 people a year die in fuel poverty.
www.unitetheunion.org
November 4, 2025 at 9:45 AM
UK energy companies made £30bn profit.
Gas extractors £10.8bn
Electricity generators £9.7bn
Transmission/Distribution £6.8 bn
Retail suppliers £2.8 bn
£500 a yr profit from average household
Bills up 42% since 2021.
Direct cause of inflation and poverty.
128,000 people a year die in fuel poverty.
Gas extractors £10.8bn
Electricity generators £9.7bn
Transmission/Distribution £6.8 bn
Retail suppliers £2.8 bn
£500 a yr profit from average household
Bills up 42% since 2021.
Direct cause of inflation and poverty.
128,000 people a year die in fuel poverty.
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THREAD: 1/6
Part IV of our FAQs on the EU’s not-so-Clean Industrial Deal is out 🕵️♀️ taking a closer look at its support of two fossil fuel industry favourite false solutions: hydrogen and carbon capture👇
corporateeurope.org/en/2025/11/d...
Part IV of our FAQs on the EU’s not-so-Clean Industrial Deal is out 🕵️♀️ taking a closer look at its support of two fossil fuel industry favourite false solutions: hydrogen and carbon capture👇
corporateeurope.org/en/2025/11/d...
November 4, 2025 at 11:03 AM
THREAD: 1/6
Part IV of our FAQs on the EU’s not-so-Clean Industrial Deal is out 🕵️♀️ taking a closer look at its support of two fossil fuel industry favourite false solutions: hydrogen and carbon capture👇
corporateeurope.org/en/2025/11/d...
Part IV of our FAQs on the EU’s not-so-Clean Industrial Deal is out 🕵️♀️ taking a closer look at its support of two fossil fuel industry favourite false solutions: hydrogen and carbon capture👇
corporateeurope.org/en/2025/11/d...
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2/5 The Dirty Deal is channelling more public money 💰💰💰 to big polluters 🏭🏭🏭
Carbon capture is dirty industry’s golden ticket to keep profiting from polluting👇
Carbon capture is dirty industry’s golden ticket to keep profiting from polluting👇
November 4, 2025 at 11:03 AM
2/5 The Dirty Deal is channelling more public money 💰💰💰 to big polluters 🏭🏭🏭
Carbon capture is dirty industry’s golden ticket to keep profiting from polluting👇
Carbon capture is dirty industry’s golden ticket to keep profiting from polluting👇
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3/6 It locks in the shift from renewable to fossil hydrogen, a major win for dirty industry.
The Dirty Deal mirrors industry’s language and embraces hydrogen made from fossil gas, with the fiction that its emissions will soon be captured 👇
The Dirty Deal mirrors industry’s language and embraces hydrogen made from fossil gas, with the fiction that its emissions will soon be captured 👇
November 4, 2025 at 11:03 AM
3/6 It locks in the shift from renewable to fossil hydrogen, a major win for dirty industry.
The Dirty Deal mirrors industry’s language and embraces hydrogen made from fossil gas, with the fiction that its emissions will soon be captured 👇
The Dirty Deal mirrors industry’s language and embraces hydrogen made from fossil gas, with the fiction that its emissions will soon be captured 👇
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4/6 It promises to rip away environmental rules around infrastructure permitting 🚷🛢️🏞️
Our health, land and seas are being jeopardised for vast CO2 and hydrogen infrastructure, which will lock-in fossil fuels👇
Our health, land and seas are being jeopardised for vast CO2 and hydrogen infrastructure, which will lock-in fossil fuels👇
November 4, 2025 at 11:03 AM
4/6 It promises to rip away environmental rules around infrastructure permitting 🚷🛢️🏞️
Our health, land and seas are being jeopardised for vast CO2 and hydrogen infrastructure, which will lock-in fossil fuels👇
Our health, land and seas are being jeopardised for vast CO2 and hydrogen infrastructure, which will lock-in fossil fuels👇
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5/6 The CID promises to create a market for “captured carbon” 🤪 which jeopardise real emissions cuts ✂️ and is unlikely to ever materialise.
By putting the fossil fuel industry in the driving seat of industrial policy, the Commission is waving bye bye to a fossil fuel phase out 👇
By putting the fossil fuel industry in the driving seat of industrial policy, the Commission is waving bye bye to a fossil fuel phase out 👇
November 4, 2025 at 11:03 AM
5/6 The CID promises to create a market for “captured carbon” 🤪 which jeopardise real emissions cuts ✂️ and is unlikely to ever materialise.
By putting the fossil fuel industry in the driving seat of industrial policy, the Commission is waving bye bye to a fossil fuel phase out 👇
By putting the fossil fuel industry in the driving seat of industrial policy, the Commission is waving bye bye to a fossil fuel phase out 👇
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👆 6/6 The Commission should stop listening to Big Polluters: industrial policy should put public health, labour rights and environmental protection before competitiveness.
We need to transform our economy away from fossil fuels.
Read more in our Dirty Deal FAQ: corporateeurope.org/en/2025/11/d...
We need to transform our economy away from fossil fuels.
Read more in our Dirty Deal FAQ: corporateeurope.org/en/2025/11/d...
November 4, 2025 at 11:03 AM
👆 6/6 The Commission should stop listening to Big Polluters: industrial policy should put public health, labour rights and environmental protection before competitiveness.
We need to transform our economy away from fossil fuels.
Read more in our Dirty Deal FAQ: corporateeurope.org/en/2025/11/d...
We need to transform our economy away from fossil fuels.
Read more in our Dirty Deal FAQ: corporateeurope.org/en/2025/11/d...
CEO of industrial gasses company Linde gives 3 fundamental reasons why green hydrogen won't take off in EU any time soon:
1) Lack of scalability vs fossil hydrogen
2) High capital costs not coming down
3) Too much competition for renewable electricity
www.hydrogeninsight.com/production/-...
1) Lack of scalability vs fossil hydrogen
2) High capital costs not coming down
3) Too much competition for renewable electricity
www.hydrogeninsight.com/production/-...
‘Green hydrogen has three big problems to solve before it can take off’: Linde CEO
Sanjiv Lamba highlights that while Chinese electrolysers are rapidly falling in costs, issues with renewable H2 are “more fundamental”
www.hydrogeninsight.com
November 4, 2025 at 2:25 PM
CEO of industrial gasses company Linde gives 3 fundamental reasons why green hydrogen won't take off in EU any time soon:
1) Lack of scalability vs fossil hydrogen
2) High capital costs not coming down
3) Too much competition for renewable electricity
www.hydrogeninsight.com/production/-...
1) Lack of scalability vs fossil hydrogen
2) High capital costs not coming down
3) Too much competition for renewable electricity
www.hydrogeninsight.com/production/-...
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This morning, EU environment ministers meet to agree a way forward for the Climate Law🌍 ...but leaked drafts show plans to weaken the 2040 target of slashing emissions by 90% if it is hurting industry "competitiveness" 🏭
Read more on 🔍 Deregulation Watch 🔎
corporateeurope.org/en/deregulation-watch
Read more on 🔍 Deregulation Watch 🔎
corporateeurope.org/en/deregulation-watch
November 4, 2025 at 9:10 AM
This morning, EU environment ministers meet to agree a way forward for the Climate Law🌍 ...but leaked drafts show plans to weaken the 2040 target of slashing emissions by 90% if it is hurting industry "competitiveness" 🏭
Read more on 🔍 Deregulation Watch 🔎
corporateeurope.org/en/deregulation-watch
Read more on 🔍 Deregulation Watch 🔎
corporateeurope.org/en/deregulation-watch
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Despite January revelations of #ForeverLobbying Project @lemonde.fr about devastating impacts of forever chemicals #PFAS, & corporate influence campaign that keeps these harmful substances in our food, water, soil, & bodies, little has changed
Read our op ed (in 🇫🇷) ⬇️
www.lemonde.fr/idees/articl...
Read our op ed (in 🇫🇷) ⬇️
www.lemonde.fr/idees/articl...
PFAS : « L’interdiction des polluants éternels en Europe reste un espoir lointain »
TRIBUNE. Dans une tribune au « Monde », la chercheuse au sein de l’ONG Corporate Europe Observatory Vicky Cann dénonce le lobbying des entreprises chimiques et s’inquiète de voir s’éloigner la possibi...
www.lemonde.fr
November 3, 2025 at 12:55 PM
Despite January revelations of #ForeverLobbying Project @lemonde.fr about devastating impacts of forever chemicals #PFAS, & corporate influence campaign that keeps these harmful substances in our food, water, soil, & bodies, little has changed
Read our op ed (in 🇫🇷) ⬇️
www.lemonde.fr/idees/articl...
Read our op ed (in 🇫🇷) ⬇️
www.lemonde.fr/idees/articl...
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NEW on 🔍 Deregulation Watch 🔎
Under pressure from the #Hydrogen lobby, EU Commission agrees to review its rules on producing #greenhydrogen 2 years earlier than planned. Industry wants sustainability criteria weakened... Expect more fossil gas consumption.
corporateeurope.org/en/deregulat...
Under pressure from the #Hydrogen lobby, EU Commission agrees to review its rules on producing #greenhydrogen 2 years earlier than planned. Industry wants sustainability criteria weakened... Expect more fossil gas consumption.
corporateeurope.org/en/deregulat...
October 30, 2025 at 10:27 AM
NEW on 🔍 Deregulation Watch 🔎
Under pressure from the #Hydrogen lobby, EU Commission agrees to review its rules on producing #greenhydrogen 2 years earlier than planned. Industry wants sustainability criteria weakened... Expect more fossil gas consumption.
corporateeurope.org/en/deregulat...
Under pressure from the #Hydrogen lobby, EU Commission agrees to review its rules on producing #greenhydrogen 2 years earlier than planned. Industry wants sustainability criteria weakened... Expect more fossil gas consumption.
corporateeurope.org/en/deregulat...
The blunt truth about #CCS via @ketanjoshi.co
"There is not a single climate solution that displays this same incredible mix of total, persistent failure blended with total immunity to any consequences to this failure"
Now used to justify gas-fuelled data centres
www.crikey.com.au/2025/10/27/g...
"There is not a single climate solution that displays this same incredible mix of total, persistent failure blended with total immunity to any consequences to this failure"
Now used to justify gas-fuelled data centres
www.crikey.com.au/2025/10/27/g...
Google’s carbon capture bullshit proves big tech is speed-running the greenwashing gauntlet
Carbon capture and storage will never stop failing, but as Google's latest plan shows, big tech is addicted to this greenwashing fantasy.
www.crikey.com.au
October 29, 2025 at 11:38 AM
The blunt truth about #CCS via @ketanjoshi.co
"There is not a single climate solution that displays this same incredible mix of total, persistent failure blended with total immunity to any consequences to this failure"
Now used to justify gas-fuelled data centres
www.crikey.com.au/2025/10/27/g...
"There is not a single climate solution that displays this same incredible mix of total, persistent failure blended with total immunity to any consequences to this failure"
Now used to justify gas-fuelled data centres
www.crikey.com.au/2025/10/27/g...
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🔋In an energy shortage, only 4% of people think data centres should get top priority.
🥇Hospitals, housing, and food come first.
📊 Our new poll developed with partners shows new European attitudes to growing data centre electricity demand 👇
beyondfossilfuels.org/2025/10/27/m...
🥇Hospitals, housing, and food come first.
📊 Our new poll developed with partners shows new European attitudes to growing data centre electricity demand 👇
beyondfossilfuels.org/2025/10/27/m...
October 29, 2025 at 10:07 AM
🔋In an energy shortage, only 4% of people think data centres should get top priority.
🥇Hospitals, housing, and food come first.
📊 Our new poll developed with partners shows new European attitudes to growing data centre electricity demand 👇
beyondfossilfuels.org/2025/10/27/m...
🥇Hospitals, housing, and food come first.
📊 Our new poll developed with partners shows new European attitudes to growing data centre electricity demand 👇
beyondfossilfuels.org/2025/10/27/m...
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even more remarkable, the European Commission is contemplating revisions of STS securitisation regime to join the Trump deregulation frenzy
Siri, is it normal and OK when ABS conferences in Miami are so deafeningly loud and excitable that @brookeamasters.ft.com almost turns around and leaves? on.ft.com/47zsZm5
Deregulation will pour extra fuel on the private credit bonfire
[FREE TO READ] The Trump administration’s looser rules could breed more ‘cockroaches’ in the lending market
on.ft.com
October 29, 2025 at 10:52 AM
even more remarkable, the European Commission is contemplating revisions of STS securitisation regime to join the Trump deregulation frenzy
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A ceasefire is not enough when our leaders still let Israel's government act with impunity.
Sanctions now. Arms embargo now. UK Jews demand real accountability.
Sanctions now. Arms embargo now. UK Jews demand real accountability.
October 29, 2025 at 10:56 AM
A ceasefire is not enough when our leaders still let Israel's government act with impunity.
Sanctions now. Arms embargo now. UK Jews demand real accountability.
Sanctions now. Arms embargo now. UK Jews demand real accountability.
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Israel has bombed Gaza again. 104 Palestinians are dead.
Critical aid being let into Gaza remains far below agreed levels.
Critical aid being let into Gaza remains far below agreed levels.
October 29, 2025 at 10:56 AM
Israel has bombed Gaza again. 104 Palestinians are dead.
Critical aid being let into Gaza remains far below agreed levels.
Critical aid being let into Gaza remains far below agreed levels.
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🕴️The tech industry now employs 890 full-time lobbyists, up from 699 two years ago.
🤯There are now more tech lobbyists than there are Members of the European Parliament.
corporateeurope.org/en/2025/10/b...
🤯There are now more tech lobbyists than there are Members of the European Parliament.
corporateeurope.org/en/2025/10/b...
Big Tech lobby budgets hit record levels | Corporate Europe Observatory
New figures show that the digital industry as a whole is now spending €151 million a year on lobbying the EU, a major increase to what was already considerable firepower.
corporateeurope.org
October 29, 2025 at 7:58 AM
🕴️The tech industry now employs 890 full-time lobbyists, up from 699 two years ago.
🤯There are now more tech lobbyists than there are Members of the European Parliament.
corporateeurope.org/en/2025/10/b...
🤯There are now more tech lobbyists than there are Members of the European Parliament.
corporateeurope.org/en/2025/10/b...
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📢 As the EU's deregulation agenda rolls out the red carpet for corporate interests, our new study shows that the tech industry has ramped up its lobby power:
💰 Lobby spending hits a record €151 million
🕴 Almost 900 tech lobbyists
🤝 Big Tech has lobby 3 meetings a day
@lobbycontrol.bsky.social
💰 Lobby spending hits a record €151 million
🕴 Almost 900 tech lobbyists
🤝 Big Tech has lobby 3 meetings a day
@lobbycontrol.bsky.social
Big Tech lobby budgets hit record levels | Corporate Europe Observatory
New figures show that the digital industry as a whole is now spending €151 million a year on lobbying the EU, a major increase to what was already considerable firepower.
corporateeurope.org
October 29, 2025 at 7:58 AM
📢 As the EU's deregulation agenda rolls out the red carpet for corporate interests, our new study shows that the tech industry has ramped up its lobby power:
💰 Lobby spending hits a record €151 million
🕴 Almost 900 tech lobbyists
🤝 Big Tech has lobby 3 meetings a day
@lobbycontrol.bsky.social
💰 Lobby spending hits a record €151 million
🕴 Almost 900 tech lobbyists
🤝 Big Tech has lobby 3 meetings a day
@lobbycontrol.bsky.social
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1/ 🤔 indulge us in an exercise of logic, spread over a few posts
TL;DR? a new court ruling and a new disclosure mechanism should ban 🇫🇷 French oil & gas major ⛽ TotalEnergies from participating at COP30 in Brazil.
TL;DR? a new court ruling and a new disclosure mechanism should ban 🇫🇷 French oil & gas major ⛽ TotalEnergies from participating at COP30 in Brazil.
October 23, 2025 at 4:55 PM
1/ 🤔 indulge us in an exercise of logic, spread over a few posts
TL;DR? a new court ruling and a new disclosure mechanism should ban 🇫🇷 French oil & gas major ⛽ TotalEnergies from participating at COP30 in Brazil.
TL;DR? a new court ruling and a new disclosure mechanism should ban 🇫🇷 French oil & gas major ⛽ TotalEnergies from participating at COP30 in Brazil.
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The European Commission’s 2026 work programme, launched earlier this week, is the most deregulatory in EU history 🚨
Out of 47 planned initiatives, 25 are focused on “simplification” – a euphemism for #deregulation ⚠️
Read more on Deregulation Watch:
corporateeurope.org/en/deregulation-watch
Out of 47 planned initiatives, 25 are focused on “simplification” – a euphemism for #deregulation ⚠️
Read more on Deregulation Watch:
corporateeurope.org/en/deregulation-watch
Deregulation Watch | Corporate Europe Observatory
Check out our new posts on Deregulation Watch which helps civil society monitor new developments in the deregulation agenda, assess what’s at stake, and organise in defence of strong social, environme...
corporateeurope.org
October 24, 2025 at 9:10 AM
The European Commission’s 2026 work programme, launched earlier this week, is the most deregulatory in EU history 🚨
Out of 47 planned initiatives, 25 are focused on “simplification” – a euphemism for #deregulation ⚠️
Read more on Deregulation Watch:
corporateeurope.org/en/deregulation-watch
Out of 47 planned initiatives, 25 are focused on “simplification” – a euphemism for #deregulation ⚠️
Read more on Deregulation Watch:
corporateeurope.org/en/deregulation-watch
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6/ Therefore if its lobbyists can't tick the box, why should TotalEnergies be allowed to attend the UN climate talks in Brazil this November, aka COP30, which are working towards the goals of the Paris Agreement? It openly makes a mockery of the process.
#KickBigPollutersOut
#KickBigPollutersOut
October 23, 2025 at 4:55 PM
6/ Therefore if its lobbyists can't tick the box, why should TotalEnergies be allowed to attend the UN climate talks in Brazil this November, aka COP30, which are working towards the goals of the Paris Agreement? It openly makes a mockery of the process.
#KickBigPollutersOut
#KickBigPollutersOut
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5/ Now that a court has ruled that TotalEnergies' so-called "Paris-aligned" plan of being "net-zero emissions by 2050" is in fact greenwashing, and it's no longer able to claim such things, TotalEnergies is *not* "in full alignment" with "the goals and principles of the Paris Agreement"
October 23, 2025 at 4:55 PM
5/ Now that a court has ruled that TotalEnergies' so-called "Paris-aligned" plan of being "net-zero emissions by 2050" is in fact greenwashing, and it's no longer able to claim such things, TotalEnergies is *not* "in full alignment" with "the goals and principles of the Paris Agreement"