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What are Scope 3 emissions, and why TotalEnergies just lost in court over them?
A Paris court ruled TotalEnergies failed its legal vigilance duty by ignoring Scope 3 emissions, the greenhouse gases released when customers use its products.
Scope 3 emissions are the greenhouse gases produced when customers burn a company's products, not by the company itself, yet they form the vast majority of TotalEnergies' total climate footprint. A Paris court ruled Thursday that TotalEnergies violated France's corporate vigilance law by failing to account for them.
The judgment requires the oil major to take legal responsibility for its full emissions footprint.
Why it mattersOil companies required to account for Scope 3 emissions face pressure to restructure their entire business model, not just their own operations.
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