A Belgian farmer is taking French oil and gas company TotalEnergies to court, seeking compensation for damage to his farm linked to climate change and a legal order for the company to halt investment in new fossil fuel projects. — Reuters picBRUSSELS, March 13 — A Belgian farmer is taking French oil and gas company TotalEnergies to court, seeking compensation for damage to his farm linked to climate change and a legal order for the company to halt investment in new fossil fuel projects.
During that period, an extreme storm and successive droughts reduced his crop and meadow yields, forcing him to buy animal feed and eventually to reduce the size of his herd.He argues TotalEnergies failed to comply with Belgian law, which states that anyone who causes damage must make reparations for it.