Cape Times (Digital)

Cape Times (Digital)

1 Issue, 2024-03-14

Lawsuit over climate change-fuelled losses

BRUSSELS: A Belgian farmer is taking French oil and gas company TotalEnergies to court, seeking compensation for climate change-fuelled damage to his farm and a legal order for the company to halt investments in new fossil fuel projects. The case, filed yesterday at the Tournai commercial court, is the first climate change-related lawsuit in Belgium to target a multinational company. Hugues Falys, who farms a herd of cattle in Lessines, argues that, as one of the world’s top 20 CO2-emitting companies, TotalEnergies is partly responsible for damage extreme weather did to his operations from 2016-2022. | Reuters…
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