Introduction

I don't know if you've noticed, but TotalEnergies is not very appreciated by environmentalists. Yes, yes, I assure you.

Yet, it is a model company investing billions in renewable energies. By 2030, it plans to increase to 100 GW of renewable energy capacity. 100 GW of renewable energy! Can you imagine, it's huge. To give you an idea, in 2017, the installed capacity in France was about 130 GW, including 63 GW of nuclear. It's considerable. As a result, by 2030, the share of oil in TotalEnergies' energy mix will have decreased to 30%.

Moreover, like most major companies in the CAC 40 and European states, TotalEnergies has promised net zero emissions by 2050. And these are not just empty promises, but detailed and funded plans with targets for each year.

Instead of fighting it, we should establish it as a pioneering enterprise in ecology. Obviously, this would require its eco-leftist islamists to stop making ideology and accept (...)

Excuse me, I had a stroke and for 5 minutes, I started talking nonsense. But since there are some who take these words literally, I will take a few minutes to respond to them.

Some calculations

Already, on the environmental level, I would like to remind you of a fact that greenwashing enthusiasts of all kinds tend to forget: producing more low-carbon energy worsens climate change. Indeed, "low-carbon" does not mean zero carbon. If we want to fight climate change, only the reduction of annual greenhouse gas emissions matters.

As a result, reducing energy use, regardless of its source, helps combat climate change. Substituting energiesCarbon-based by low-carbon energies also helps to fight against climate change.

But producing more low-carbon energy without reducing carbon energy production increases emissions and thus the problem. Here is the current and future energy mix of TotalEnergies (reconstructed from data provided by TotalEnergies).

And here are its greenhouse gas emissions reconstructed using approximations favorable to TotalEnergies (10 g of CO₂e per kWh for biomass and electricity, 400 g of CO₂e per kWh for gas, and 700 g of CO₂e per kWh for oil).

You see that little barely visible green speck at the top of the last chart? That's TotalEnergies' contribution to climate preservation.

More seriously, oil production is barely decreasing (we should rather talk about stability than decline), while gas production is booming. As a result, overall, the greenhouse gas emissions from energy produced by TotalEnergies will continue to increase during the coming decade. Whereas to stay below 2 °C, they must decrease.

So yes, it is very good to develop renewable energies, but no, it is not enough. What is needed is to develop low-carbon energies more quickly and especially to reduce carbon energy production.

And I am not talking about the multiple human rights and biodiversity violations that TotalEnergies is currently accused of, particularly in Uganda and Mozambique. Or the lobbying in favor of fossil fuels.

Conclusion

You might argue that TotalEnergies is not the worst company in the sector. That it is even one of the most virtuous both environmentally and in terms of respecting human rights. That TotalEnergies is obliged to behave this way.

And I completely agree with you. The problem is neither TotalEnergies nor its leaders, but the system. Even if we replaced all TotalEnergies employees with saints obsessed with climate change, it would remainFixed on its environmentally suicidal roadmap. If we want our children to have a chance to live better than us, it is more than urgent that TotalEnergies and other major oil companies have an objective other than maximizing profits. It is more than urgent that the energy transition becomes their main objective, regardless of the cost to their finances.

It is for this reason and so many others that I wish for the socialization of energy.

Source:

For productionofElectricity in France in 2015:

https://www.ecologie.gouv.fr/production-delectricite

For TotalEnergie's energy production in 2021 and 2030:https://totalenergies.com/fr/groupe/ambition/etre-acteur-majeur-transition-energetique

https://www.agence-france-electricite.fr/actualites/total-va-diminuer-production-petrole/

To convert a kWh into CO2eq:

wikipedia but it is based on the report of theIPCCfrom 2014:https://www.ipcc.ch/site/assets/uploads/2018/02/ipcc_wg3_ar5_annex-iii.pdfp

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Quatre associations tentent de renvoyer TotalEnergies devant la justice pour ses forages pétroliers « climaticides » en Ouganda et en Tanzanie

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