Overview
- Judges ordered TotalEnergies to remove specified net‑zero and energy‑transition statements from its parent company website within one month or face daily fines, and to publish the court’s decision online.
- The company must pay €8,000 to each of the three plaintiff NGOs and €15,000 toward their legal fees after the groups sued in 2022 with support from ClientEarth.
- The court dismissed separate complaints concerning the company’s messaging on fossil gas and biofuels.
- Environmental groups hailed the ruling as a first global conviction of a major oil firm for greenwashing, and the company can still appeal.
- A separate criminal investigation by the Nanterre prosecutor into the advertising remains open.