Campaigners Urge Lenders to Halt Funding for Total’s Mozambique LNG Project

Environmental campaigners have urged banks to withdraw financing and guarantees for the $20-billion Mozambique LNG project led by supermajor TotalEnergies, claiming that the plant’s construction and operation would contribute to climate change and exacerbate abuses of human rights in the country. “As a critical financial supporter of the project, you bear a direct and important responsibility in its dreadful impacts,” more than 100 climate activist groups wrote in a letter to the lenders seen by Reuters. The warning from the environmentalists…