TotalPollution vs. Rugby World Cup: Trademark Trouble?

With just over a week to go until the start of the Rugby World Cup in France, Greenpeace has launched the "TotalPollution: A Dirty Game" campaign, which aims to criticize TotalEnergies' sponsorship of the tournament, stating that this support "is aimed at greenwashing its climate-destroying activities" on the part of TotalEnergies.

The video released for the campaign is a clear reference to the opening match of the tournament to be held on September 8 between the host team (France) and New Zealand. In this video a flood of oil rises from a TotalEnergies advertising banner, submerging the field and the stands and overflowing the stadium, in order to convey Greenpeace's claim that "the fossil fuel industry produces a stadium full of oil every 3 hours and 37 minutes".