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Shell wins appeal against emissions reduction order
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The court's decision does not entirely rule out Shell's responsibility to reduce greenhouse gas emissions, but it dismisses the requirement for the company to cut its absolute carbon emissions by 45% by 2030. Shell has the right to decide how it will make these cuts. The ruling is seen as a setback for environmental groups, including Friends of the Earth Netherlands, who said the decision was a reversal of a landmark ruling.
In general, any reduction in greenhouse gas emissions is positive to mitigate climate change.
But that does not mean that a reduction order for Shell has that same effect.
The court's final judgement is that Milieudefensie's claims cannot be granted. The Appeals Court is therefore quashing the original judgement.
However, the existing climate legislation does not provide for a specific reduction percentage for individual companies.
There is currently insufficient consensus in climate science on a specific reduction percentage to which an individual company like Shell should adhere.
Even though Shell bears a special responsibility as a large oil and gas company, that does not mean we can apply a general reduction goal of 45 per cent.
We are pleased with the court's decision, which we believe is the right one for the global energy transition, the Netherlands and our company.
Shell continues to plan for levels of oil and gas production and investment that undermine the world's chances of curtailing climate disaster and are incompatible with holding global temperature rise to 1.5 C.
This hurts. At the same time, we see that this case has ensured that major polluters are not inviolable and has further fuelled the debate about their responsibility in combating dangerous climate change. That's why we're going to continue to tackle big polluters, like Shell.
We clearly saw that some of the arguments that we used in the court case against Shell were very useful in these cases.
It is obvious that Shell is currently increasing its emissions.
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perspectives
countries
organizations
- 1.Shell
- 2.Friends of the Earth
- 3.Milieudefensie
- 4.Global Witness
- 5.Chevron
- 6.Exxon Mobil
- 7.Hague Appeals Court
- 8.Oil Change International
- 9.US Securities and Exchange Commission
