RUGBY WORLD CUP 2023 IS SPONSORED BY TOTALENERGIES

GREENPEACE AND STUDIO BIRTHPLACE SHOW THE EFFECTS OF FOSSIL FUEL

Greenpeace France and production company Studio Birthplace, represented by Park Village in the UK, created and released their campaign video against fossil fuel sponsorship in the Rugby World Cup 2023. The sporting event is sponsored by French fuel and energy giant TotalEnergies, and in the animated video named ‘TotalPollution: A Dirty Game’, Studio Birthplace and Greenpeace France illustrate the amount of crude oil that the global fossil fuel industry, TotalEnergies included, collectively produces in 3 hours and 37 minutes.

‘That’s more than six and a half stadiums worth of oil every 24 hours,’ the team states. As Greenpeace France reports, the Rugby World Cup Limited even tried to block the release of the video with a cease and desist letter sent to Greenpeace International on Tuesday, August 29th, 2023, the day before the video was due to go public. The team adds that fuel and energy companies like TotalEnergies sponsor events like the Rugby World Cup to distract everyone from their climate destruction.
Integrity, passion, solidarity, discipline and respect – those are rugby values. But fossil fuel companies like TotalEnergies piggyback those values by sponsoring popular sports events like the Rugby World Cup, to distract everyone from their climate destruction. Meanwhile, fossil fuel companies won’t stop extracting fossil fuels – even though they know it’s jeopardizing a livable future for us all – because they like the record-breaking profits they’re making,’ says Edina Ifticene, Campaigner at Greenpeace France.

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