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A recent decision by a French court requires a major European oil and gas company to report not only its own climate-warming emissions and those of its contractors but also those of its customers, who burn the oil and petroleum products the company sells.

(WO) — TotalEnergies has filed an appeal of a June 25 ruling by the Paris Judicial Court in a climate-related case brought under France’s duty of vigilance law, arguing the legislation does not apply to global climate change or the actions of the company’s customers.