Scientists and experts ask TotalEnergies to abandon its pipeline project in East Africa

They are demanding that TotalEnergies abandon its pipeline project in East Africa. In a grandstand at World published on Sunday May 7, a group of 188 scientists and experts, including climatologist Christophe Cassou and paleoclimatologist Valérie Masson-Delmotte, denounce a “climaticide project”. In line with the latest IPCC report and the recommendations of the International Energy Agency, “no more new fossil projects have their place if we want to achieve net zero emissions by 2050 and only a drastic reduction (…) of greenhouse gas emissions (…) would lead to a slowdown in the global warming”, experts say.

Gold, TotalEnergies “is the international oil firm that approved the most new oil and gas projects in 2022″, recalls the collective. Its Eacop pipeline project in Uganda and Tanzania “will emit, over the twenty-five years announced, more than 379 million tonnes of CO2 equivalent”endangering “the biodiversity” and contributing “to proven violations of human rights”. They therefore urge “the shareholders of TotalEnergies to vote against the “say on climate” that the firm will propose at its next general meeting, on May 26, and to demand that the company abandon Eacop and its other fossil projects”.