Climate, historic ruling in the Netherlands: Shell condemned to cut CO2 emissions more

Shell sentenced in court to become greener, at the cost of cutting hydrocarbon production. The one pronounced in the Netherlands, where for the first time a private company is forced by court to align itself with the Paris climate accords, is a historic sentence – and one that could lead to school.

The company – which has also given itself one of the most ambitious decarbonization paths in the Oil & Gas sector – has been ordered to act in a much more drastic way: by 2030 it will have to …