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Activists Take Shell Emissions Case to Supreme Court

OilPrice · Irina Slav · last updated
Dutch climate activists have taken a case aiming to force supermajor Shell to significantly reduce its oil and gas output to curb emissions to the Supreme Court after the company won an appeal on the original ruling. “Judges have already confirmed that Shell is responsible for reducing emissions and to make its own contribution to the Paris Climate Agreement,” the lawyer representing Friends of the Earth, said, as quoted by Reuters. “There is enough of a legal basis to make the ruling more specific and stronger,” Roger Cox…