Greenpeace urges Danish oil policy revision after report slams TotalEnergies

A new study concludes that the oil and gas major has suppressed information on climate change for decades – and that TotalEnergies can thus not be trusted, prompting the green NGO to call for a complete halt on Danish North Sea fossil fuel projects. The French company denies having withheld knowledge.
Photo: Total Danmark
Photo: Total Danmark

"Let this serve as a reminder that we can't trust what TotalEnergies says. We must stay focused on what they do in a completely tangible sense – not on what they say," says Greenpeace Denmark Head of Climate and Environmental Policy Helene Hagel commenting on a recently published research paper showing that TotalEnergies has withheld and diluted knowledge about the climatological effects of the company's fossil energy extraction since early the 1970s.

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