UK's Supreme Court has rejected the application from the environmental campaign group Friends of the Earth to
appeal its case against a government decision to help fund the Mozambique LNG development project led by
French energy major TotalEnergies.

The ruling comes after the Court of Appeal dismissed Friends of the Earth's legal challenge  in January this year.

The group had argued that the funding was incorrectly judged to be compatible with the Paris climate agreement
and its goal to limit global warming to 1.5 degrees.

According to Friends of the Earth findings, the total emissions for the new gas field could total some 4.5 billion
tonnes of greenhouse gases (GHG) over its lifetime, more than the combined annual emissions of all 27 EU
countries, which the group claimed were not calculated as part of the government's approval process or
evaluated against global climate goals.

The group argued that the gas project will do more than exacerbate the climate crisis: “The development of the
Mozambique gas industry is believed to be a key factor fuelling instability that has led to violence, deaths and
displacement of almost one million refugees. Friends of the Earth Africa and Friends of the Earth Mozambique
are demanding an end to fossil fuel developments on the continent and instead a focus on renewables to deliver
clean energy and prosperity.”

The group noted that the Dutch and US governments had already pledged to review their financing of the plant
and urged the UK government to do the same.

Friends of the Earth's international climate campaigner Rachel Kennerley commented on the Supreme Court's
decision: “We strongly disagree with the court's decision, but sadly we cannot appeal it. Although this is the end
of our legal challenge, we again urge the UK government to reconsider its involvement in this controversial and
hugely damaging project.”

“The UK should be showing global leadership by helping nations like Mozambique to build clean energy
alternatives, not more fossil fuel projects that pollute the planet and accelerate the climate crisis.”

“We will continue to support Justica Ambiental! in Mozambique and Friends of the Earth Africa in their fight
against destructive gas projects. They have a vision of an Africa powered by renewables which we are proud to
support.”

Anabela Lemos, Director of Justiça Ambiental/Friends of the Earth Mozambique, said: “We never expected to
lose such a clear case as this, and definitely not in the UK. But not allowing an appeal in a case that is a matter
of life and death for so many people in the global south is unacceptable. We will not give up fighting to stop fossil
fuels and for the survival of our people and the planet.”

To remind, at the beginning of this year, Chairman and CEO of TotalEnergies, Patrick Pouyanné, visited the
Cabo Delgado province of Mozambique, where the Mozambique LNG project is located, to review the security
and humanitarian situation.

During the visit, he appointed Jean-Christophe Rufin, an expert in humanitarian action and human rights, with an
independent mission to assess the humanitarian situation in the province.

Mozambique LNG is the first onshore development project of an LNG plant in the country. It includes the
development of the Golfinho and Atum fields located in Offshore Area 1 and the construction of two liquefaction
trains with a total capacity of 13,1 mtpa. It is estimated to be worth more than $20 billion.

On 6 December 2022, Friends of the Earth asked the Court of Appeal in London to examine the UK
government's decision to fund the Mozambique LNG project through its export credit agency UK Export Finance
(UKEF), after its judicial review ended up in a legal deadlock in December 2021, when two High Court judges
disagreed on the verdict.