"At the Paris Court of Appeal, a new chamber to better deal with environmental disputes related to large companies", 5 March 2024

TotalEnergies is being sued to force it to drastically reduce its greenhouse gas emissions in order to comply with the goal of the Paris Agreement to limit global warming to below 1.5°C.

Suez is being sued for repeated failures at one of its factories in Chile, which was implicated in the contamination of the drinking water network with hydrocarbons in July 2019...

EDF is accused of not consulting the indigenous communities of the Union Hidalgo community in Mexico, where the energy company planned to install a giant wind farm consisting of about a hundred turbines before abandoning the project.

These three cases have three common points. They are based on the duty of care law for large companies regarding human and environmental risks associated with their activities.