NGOs rejected in appeal in case against Shell

Tuesday 12th November 2024 05:19 AM

Climate justice –

The Hague Court of Appeal considers that the oil company cannot be required to reduce its emissions through numerical targets.

Published today at 10:31 a.m.

Climate NGOs say Shell is not doing enough to reduce its greenhouse gas emissions.

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The Hague Court of Appeal on Tuesday rejected an appeal from climate groups who said Shell was not doing enough to reduce its greenhouse gas emissions. She thus annulled a historic judgment rendered three years ago.

According to the court, although the Anglo-Dutch multinational has a “duty of care” in combating dangerous climate change, Shell cannot be required to reduce its emissions of CO2 and other greenhouse gases through targets. numbers.

The case was launched in April 2019 by Milieudefensie, a branch of the international organization Friends of the Earth in the Netherlands. More than 17,000 Dutch citizens then became civil parties. Alongside six other NGOs, including Greenpeace and ActionAid in the Netherlands, Milieudefensie accused Shell, one of the world’s largest oil companies, of not doing enough to align with the 2015 Paris agreement and denounced its “destruction of the climate”.

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