France, June 25 -- The decision fell short of requests from the climate organisations who brought the lawsuit to force the company to reduce its oil and gas production.

The court scheduled a new hearing for January 2027 to consider TotalEnergies' new assessment under a 2017 law that requires companies to prevent human rights abuses and environmental risks.

It is the first time that the so-called corporate duty of vigilance law is being applied to climate change.

The law is not intended to make companies "responsible for the risks linked to climate change, which result from all human activity on the planet since the Industrial Revolution" the court said in a statement, but rather requests them to act "according to their own situation"....