What is a climate criminal like Total doing on the rugby pitch?

Fossil fuel companies will do anything to stay relevant but it's our job
to take away their platform.

Let’s tell the Rugby World Cup: no more deals with fossil fuel villains!

[1]Image of an empty stadium with a gold cup in the middle and a rugby
ball with Rugby World Cup France 2023 written on it


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John,

Total’s business plan is doomed. Fossil fuels are coming to an end and
they know it. So what can Total do to stay relevant?

Clean up their climate criminal image by sponsoring one of the world's
most popular events: the Rugby World Cup.

We can’t let Total use rugby as another comms strategy to greenwash the
hellish future it’s creating for us all.

Tobacco companies have already been kicked out of sports -- we can do the
same for fossil fuels.

Are you ready to tell key decision makers to kick fossil fuel companies
off the pitch? Our future is not a game!

[ [link removed] ]John, tell the World Rugby Council: no more deals with
climate criminals like TotalEnergies.

Rugby is the ultimate team sport, you need your teammates to move forward.
It teaches you values like solidarity, bravery and respect. Yet for
decades, TotalEnergies has demonstrated anything but that.

The truth is Total has known that their business was causing climate
collapse since 1971. And chose to run mass disinformation campaigns so
they could continue to rake in record profits at the expense of our
futures. Sounds more like selfishness, cowardice and disrespect.

TotalEnergies is an expert at manipulating the public, we need to take
away their branding platform:

[ [link removed] ]John, tell World Rugby that you don’t want to see fossil
fuel sponsors like TotalEnergies anymore !

Even if TotalEnergies is spending millions to make you think that it is
some kind of ‘renewable energy leader’, they can’t change the facts: Only
0.61% of Total’s energy output was created by renewables in 2022.

Thanks to people like you, John, Total’s lies and destruction
around the world are being exposed and the walls are finally closing on
them: In France, Uganda, Myanmar, Latin America, Yemen and even in the
Arctic. You are millions to mobilise yourselves against the apocalyptic
world that Total wants to impose on us.

We can’t let them keep lying to the public: it’s time to give them a red
card and bench fossil fuels for good.

[ [link removed] ]Tell the World Rugby Council: no deal with a climate criminal like
TotalEnergies again.



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Thanks for all that you do,
Daphne, Leyla and the team at Ekō


More information:

[ [link removed] ]The Dirty Dozen: The Climate Greenwashing of 12 European Oil Companies
(PDF),
Greenpeace CEE and Steffen Bukold. 23 August, 2023.

[ [link removed] ]Total Accused of Campaign to Play Down Climate Risk From Fossil Fuels,
InsideClimate News. 23 October, 2021.
[ [link removed] ]How Big Oil Buys Consent through sports, arts and more,
Vox Europe. 5 January, 2023.
 
[ [link removed] ]Football sponsorship,
Tobacco Tactics. 20 November, 2022.

 

 

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