Oil company TotalEnergies misled consumers when it claimed it would become carbon neutral by 2050 while still expanding oil and gas production, a French court has ruled. The firm must remove references to carbon neutrality from its website, post the ruling on its site and pay reparations to the environmental campaign groups that brought what could be a precedent-setting case. "This is the first time anywhere in the world that a major oil and gas company has been convicted by the courts for misleading the public by greenwashing its image regarding its contribution to the fight against climate change,” said Greenpeace, one of the plaintiffs, in a statement.
