2 reaching the atmosphere, and the implications could be much bigger if courts elsewhere follow suit.
Royal Dutch Shell extracts and sells 665 million barrels of oil each year. Although it has never engaged in the funding of climate-change-denying groups on the scale of Exxon-Mobil or the Koch Brothers, it has a long record of more subtle discouragement of climate action. Nevertheless, Shell has an official target of “becoming a net-zero emissions energy business by 2050”.
Those currently on the board will likely be long retired by the time it comes to deliver, and this pledge may have been more than enough in many countries. However, courts in the Netherlands, have ordered their own government to adopt some of the fastest cuts to emissions in the world. Now they have done the same thing to Shell, with a ruling that by 2030 the company s emissions must be 45 percent below 2019 levels. Something about having a third of your country already below sea level probably focuses the mi
Landmark court ruling will see Shell reduce emissions by 45% by 2030
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