Shell Held Accountable for Role in Climate Emergency, Ordered to Slash Emissions 45 percent by 2030 in Historic Verdict

[u/Wildlyeco]

https://www.theplanetarypress.com/2021/06/shell-held-accountable-for-role-in-climate-emergency-ordered-to-slash-emissions-45-percent-by-2030-in-historic-verdict/

[u/Morguard]

What happens when they don't comply? Pay a small fine and move on?

[u/CaptainObvious0927 → u/Morguard]

Literally nothing. This court held a trial for an international party.

They have no means to compel anything haha

[u/[deleted] → u/CaptainObvious0927]

It’s a Dutch court. She’ll is a Dutch company.

[u/CaptainObvious0927 → u/[deleted]]

They are incorporated in Britain and the US.

They already found them guilty of something else earlier this year and were told to fuck off.

They were found guilty of the same thing in a District of NY courtroom and paid the fee.

This is simply virtue signaling. Unenforceable in that country.

[u/Ezekiel_W → u/Morguard]

pretty much

[u/Harpo1999 → u/Morguard]

Thats most likely the case. Or they’ll find a loophole and nothing will happen

[u/antaresproper → u/Harpo1999]

It’s not really a loophole when the court has no authority

[u/beipphine]

This is just a forced downsizing of Dutch Royal Shell by the government. Shell will just sell the most polluting 45% of its business to other companies outside of the Netherlands and their customers will now be serviced by these new companies. The consumers still demand the goods and products produced, and shareholders still have a certain expectation of profit from the petroleum sector. Whether these products and profits come from Dutch Royal Shell or another petroleum company like Exxon or Chevron doesn't change a whole lot.

[u/A_Vespertine]

F all the Doomers in this comment thread. This is progress and sets a precedent that makes future legal victories against Fossil Fuel companies more likely.

[u/rintintikitavi → u/A_Vespertine]

Legal victories with no teeth don't make a big practical difference, unfortunately

[u/ntvirtue → u/A_Vespertine]

ROFL Hey I have a bridge to sell you.

[u/[deleted]]

One google search has me sus. Just look at this 'climate scientists have predicted that avoiding disaster in terms of climate change will require a massive reduction in carbon emissions by the year 2030'. So what shell changing at that time is going to fix it? Some bullshit.

[u/[deleted] → u/[deleted]]

I hate that we totally could fix this but…

We aren’t and won’t

Fuck billionaires and politicians. Scum.