Shell faces Dutch court as climate change activists demand end to emissions

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Royal Dutch Shell will face a Dutch court on Tuesday in the first hearing of a case brought on by environmentalist and human rights groups who demand the energy firm cuts its reliance on fossil fuels.

Seven activist groups, including Greenpeace and Friends of the Earth Netherlands, filed the lawsuit in April last year on behalf of over 17,000 Dutch citizens who demand that Shell cuts its greenhouse gas emissions to zero by 2050.

“We are confident that the judge’s final verdict will force Shell to adhere to international climate goals and stop causing dangerous climate change”, Friends of the Earth Netherlands director Donald Pols said on the eve of the hearing. But the action groups demand at least a 45% reduction by 2030, relative to the pollution caused in 2019, as a step towards carbon-neutral production two decades later.

 

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Surely end users are responsible for pollution? Bit like blaming foresters for growing trees that end users burn in their fireplaces.

These fanatics are insane

Shit, the climate cultists do like to make a nuisance of themselves... Can’t they just glue themselves to a road and be run down by traffic?

Shell killed KenSaroWiwa hanged with the OgoniNine.

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