Greenpeace accuses European oil and gas companies of greenwashing. In fact, the organization accuses these groups of pretending to commit to the energy transition without really respecting their climate commitments. Given this, he calls on governments to force them to stop their production of fossil fuels to save the climate.
It presented, in the midst of a heat wave, the analysis of a 110-page report written by a German political scientist specializing in energy, Steffen Bukold. According to this report, which compiles the 2022 results of twelve European groups, including BP, TotalEnergies and Shell, only 0.3% of their total production was carried out in the field of renewable energies.
A call for government regulation
“And the situation got worse in 2023.” Most European oil and gas companies plan to “maintain or even increase their oil and gas production at least until 2030”, while most of them have committed to eliminate their CO2 emissions from 2050, notes the NGO.
Under the slogan “the thermometer explodes thanks to the fossil industry”, some activists also built a fake oil derrick on Tuesday in the financial district of La Défense, at the gates of Paris, where the headquarters of TotalEnergies is located.
As was done with coal, the NGO asks European governments to regulate the activity of energy companies to force them to “reduce” their own industry, because “self-regulation does not work.” Therefore, he would like the states and the Commission to set “a mandatory target to reduce oil consumption,” Gogolewski said.
The report, titled “The Dirty Dozen”, compiles data from the 2022 annual reports of six European-based international oil majors, namely Shell (Great Britain-Netherlands), TotalEnergies (France), BP (Great Britain) , Equinor (Norway), Eni (Italy) and Repsol (Spain) and six national oil or gas companies (OMV (Austria), PKN Orien (Poland), MOL (Hungary), Wintershall Dea (Germany, a subsidiary of BASF), Petrol Group (Slovenia) and Ina Croatia (Croatia).
Source: BFM TV
