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Climate activists demonstrate in Paris against TotalEnergies
Climate activists gathered in Paris outside the headquarters of oil company TotalEnergies in the La Defense business district, where the company's annual general meeting of shareholders was taking place to decide on climate issues.
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At 10:25 am in Lisbon, five hours before the start of the General Assembly, Greenpeace activists placed a banner on a building a few hundred meters from the oil group's headquarters with the image of Patrick Pouyanné, CEO of TotalEnergies, and the phrase "wanted by civil society".
The police are out in force in the business and financial district of La Défense, where the world's fourth largest oil company and France's largest in terms of profits, which is celebrating its centenary this year, will hold its annual General Assembly.
The police have set up metal barriers at the entrance to the building.
TotalEnergies, which operates in Mozambique, said it chose its building, a 48-storey tower, instead of another location in Paris, to avoid "paralyzing a district of Paris" - as happened during the tumultuous 2023 General Assembly, which was marked by clashes between demonstrators and police.
A year later, the pressure has not diminished. On the streets and in the courts, the group continues to come under fire, with climate change advocates accusing it of exacerbating global warming and harming biodiversity and human rights through its oil and gas activities.
"We denounce TotalEnergies' expansion strategy, which continues to be geared towards the development of fossil fuels, despite its ecological rhetoric," Edina Ifticene, Greenpeace's fossil fuel campaign manager, told AFP.
This argument was shared by more than 300 scientists, including experts appointed by the United Nations (UN), who signed an opinion piece in Le Monde describing TotalEnergies' strategy as "climatically destructive".
Several organizations have called for the protest against the oil company to be rushed, namely the Extinction Rebellion movement, which demands that flagship projects in Uganda/Tanzania, Mozambique and Papua New Guinea be "abandoned" and, as recommended by the International Energy Agency, that "all investment in new fossil fuel projects be stopped".
Between "300 and 600" demonstrators are expected, according to a police source.
In view of the "risk" of public disorder, the Mayor of Paris banned demonstrations that are not legal in the immediate vicinity of the Tour Coupole, TotalEnergies' headquarters.
The agenda of the General Assembly includes a vote on TotalEnergies' climate strategy, with some investors calling for a more ambitious energy transition.
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