During COP 30 in Belém, Brazil, TotalEnergies, a member of both the Oil & Gas Climate Initiative (OGCI) and the Oil & Gas Decarbonization Charter (OGDC), announced a US$ 100 million commitment to the Venture Strategy fund of Climate Investment. This fund supports technologies that reduce emissions across the oil and gas value chain. 

Climate Investment recently became a formal Partner of the OGDC under a Memorandum of Understanding signed on 14 July 2025, and will now provide OGDC signatories with insights and guidance to help them decarbonize in line with the OGDC Charter. 

Launched by the OGCI in 2015, Climate Investment has backed 46 early- and growth-stage companies focused on methane detection and abatement, carbon capture, and energy efficiency. According to TotalEnergies, the combined greenhouse‑gas impact of the portfolio is 133 Mt CO₂e (since 2019). 

TotalEnergies itself has been a signatory of the OGDC since its inception at COP28, and its CEO, Patrick Pouyanné, is one of three “champions” of the charter, alongside Dr. Sultan Al Jaber (ADNOC) and Amin Nasser (Saudi Aramco). 

To further industry-wide emissions transparency, TotalEnergies is sharing its AUSEA (Airborne Ultralight Spectrometer for Environmental Applications) technology with several national oil companies. This complements its OGMP 2.0 Gold Standard status and supports continuous methane detection on its operated upstream assets. AUSEA is a drone-mounted sensor capable of measuring both methane and CO₂ emissions, including from hard-to-access points. According to its 2025 sustainability report, TotalEnergies has signed cooperation agreements to share AUSEA with companies like Oil India, ONGC, Sonangol, SOCAR, Petrobras, and NNPC. 

Some of Climate Investment’s backed technologies are already operating in the field. For example, Qnergy’s instrument‑air pneumatics have reportedly replaced gas‑driven pneumatic devices on roughly 400 production sites in the Barnett field. 

Patrick Pouyanné, Chairman and CEO of TotalEnergies, commented: “TotalEnergies’ commitment to Climate Investment will help to scale proven solutions for the benefit of the OGDC community. Through this, we move as one industry, backing innovations that reduce emissions on site – and enabling other operators to adopt them quickly.” He also added: “Innovation in decarbonization must be a shared journey, and we will move faster together. I invite other IOCs and NOCs to join us through Climate Investment’s venture strategy.”

Dr. Pratima Rangarajan, CEO of Climate Investment, said: “At Climate Investment, our mission is to invest in decarbonization technologies that underpin the next generation of global infrastructure. Through our venture investment strategy, we identify and scale solutions for heavy industry, helping create operational value for asset owners and deliver measurable greenhouse gas reductions.”
She added: “We welcome TotalEnergies’ continued commitment to Climate Investment and, through our OGDC partnership, look forward to scaling decarbonization technologies across the oil and gas sector.”