Africa: The Climate Law the Fossil Fuel Industry Doesn't Want

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Press Release - Europe's biggest polluters - Shell, BP, TotalEnergies and ENI - are fighting to stop a law that would force them to reduce their greenhouse gas emissions. Our governments cannot allow them to succeed.

Europe's biggest polluters - Shell, BP, TotalEnergies and ENI - are fighting to stop a law that would force them to reduce their greenhouse gas emissions. Our governments cannot allow them to succeed.Wildfires, flooding and record heatwaves have left a trail of devastation in their wake across the world in 2023, as climate change worsens.

The Parliament's negotiating position on the law - known as the Corporate Sustainability Due Diligence Directive - includes a powerful set of tools that could force big companies to reduce their emissions in line with the Paris climate agreement. All three lobby groups have secured numerous high-level meetings with key policymakers about the law over the last two years.

And if climate plans for big polluters becomes a reality, they won't be forced to act alone. Instead, they would be part of a transformation of the wider economy away from fossil fuels, as the law would oblige the biggest companies in Europe across other sectors to curb their emissions too.

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