nam 22 uu 4500 10.17176/20230406-190236-0 DE-Verfassungsblog cr||||| 230406s2023||||xx#|||||o|||| ||| 0|eng|| 10.17176/20230406-190236-0 doi eng 342 23 Brémond, Zérah Author aut (orcid)0000-0002-6752-2220 Corporate Duty of Vigilance and Environment - Some Lessons Drawn from the EDF and the TotalEnergies Cases  Brémond, Zérah Verfassungsblog 2023-04-06 Text txt rdacontent Computermedien c rdamedia Online-Ressource cr rdacarrier On February 23, 2023, French bank BNP Paribas was sued before the civil tribunal in Paris for having allegedly breached its environmental duty of vigilance. In particular, deficiencies in the vigilance plan related to the allocation fundraising activities are criticized. This climate litigation, involving a French bank for the first time, could increase the liability of financial protagonists in the fight against climate change if it succeeded. Nevertheless, one may doubt that the case against BNP Paribas will prove to be successful, as previous ones – which had been introduced under the 2017 law of vigilance (LdV) – are all either pending or unsuccessful. CC BY-SA 4.0 climate litigation Corporate Due Diligence France Total Max Steinbeis Verfassungsblog gGmbH Verfassungsblog 2366-7044 https://verfassungsblog.de/corporate-duty-of-vigilance-and-environment/ raw object