The LPI’S MONTHLY NEWSLETTER – JULY 2026

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The LPI’S MONTHLY NEWSLETTER - JULY 2026

Two legal proceedings, three weeks apart, raise the same uncomfortable
question for Uganda's oil-affected communities: whose cases get heard
and how quickly?
In the space of a single fortnight, the East African Crude Oil Pipeline
(EACOP) made international legal headlines twice and neither time in an
East African courtroom.
On June 25, 2026, the Paris Judicial Court ruled that TotalEnergies had
failed to meet its legal duty, under France's 2017 duty of vigilance law, to
account for the climate risks generated by its customers' use of its oil and
gas.
The ruling was a genuine, if partial, victory for the coalition of NGOs
(non-governmental organizations), Notre Affaire à Tous, Sherpa, France
Nature Environment and the City of Paris that brought the case. The
court ordered TotalEnergies to revise its vigilance plan within six (6)
months to include these “Scope 3” emissions, with the case returning to
court in January 2027. But the court declined to order the production
cuts the plaintiffs had sought. And the coalition had filed the case back in
2020.