French Court Ruling against TotalEnergies “Net Zero” Claim and Lessons for other IOCs
By Innocent Edemhanria On 23 October 2025 a Paris civil court found that TotalEnergies made “misleading commercial practices” by advertising ambitions such as being “carbon neutral by 2050” and “a major actor in the energy transition” while continuing to expand oil and gas activities. The decision is widely viewed as a landmark precedent applying France’s anti-greenwashing rules to a major […]