According to a new calculation published Tuesday by the NGO, the French multinational would have issued in 2019 four times more greenhouse gas than announced.
Le Monde with AFP
The total multinationals would pollute much more than it admits. The French petrogazi giant would make four times more greenhouse gas than announced, according to a new calculation of its carbon footprint carried out by Greenpeace, published on Wednesday November 2. “The estimate finds a result almost four times greater than that communicated by the Major, a total of emission of 1.6 billion tonnes of equivalent co 2 , while the group indicates Having issued 455 million tonnes “in 2019, concluded the environmental NGO, which ordered this report to the Factor-X firm
For the association, this encryption “underlines the obvious lack of transparency of totalergies”. “Her responsibility in the climate crisis is much more important than what she wants to recognize,” denounces François Chartier, de Greenpeace, for whom the group’s ambitions to reach carbon neutrality in 2050 are “downright fanciful”.
The suspicion of an underestimation is reinforced, according to Greenpeace, by the comparison with the balance sheet of the British Shell, 3.6 times higher than that of Totalnergies while its production of oil and gas is only 1.22 times higher and its oil sales 1.6 times greater. While carbon footprint methodologies are complex and discussed, the NGO affirms that its costing, “without claiming an” absolute truth “, is a” contribution to the debate “.
a” dubious methodology “For totalnergies
“Greenpeace’s report follows a doubtful methodology,” swept total, believing that the study has “several times the emissions related to the combustion of products”. GHG Protocol, the world’s most used global standard to establish these assessments, but differently interpreted, distinguishes emissions in three perimeters: direct activity of activity (known as “Scope 1”), emissions related to electricity consumption, heat and steam (“scope2”) and indirect emissions upstream and downstream of production (“Scope 3”).
This “Scope 3”, which incorporates the essence consumed by motorists or gas burned by the stove, represents most of the emissions in the fossil fuels. For totalnergies, Factor-X assesses this perimeter to 1.4 billion tonnes of equivalent co 2 (90 % of the total carbon footprint) in 2019 against 410 million in the grouping of the group.
“The emissions calculated by Greenpeace would correspond to more than 4 % of global emissions” linked to this industry in the counting of the International Energy Agency (36 Gigatonnes of equivalent co 2 ) In 2019, without equivalence with “the market share of totalnergies in the sector”, “between 1 and 2 %”, underlines the group.
Greenpeace announces that it has reported this information to the Financial Markets Authority. In March, the NGO assigned to total court for deceptive commercial practices, for its advertisements qualified as “greenwashing”.