Milieudefensie starts new climate case against Shell!

Why is a new climate case against Shell needed?

The science is crystal clear: there is no room for new oil and gas field drilling. Even if all the oil and gas is extracted from existing fields, the earth is already warming well beyond 1.5 degrees.
The Court of Appeal has ruled that new oil and gas fields might be at odds with the Paris Agreement.
Yet Shell has 700 new oil and gas fields in the pipeline worldwide, according to new research by Milieudefensie and Global Witness. .
If Shell stopped approving and developing new fields, it would prevent 36 times the emissions of the entire Netherlands.

Shell is in breach of its legal duty of care due to its continued investment in new oil and gas fields. And also due to its inadequate climate policy for the period 2030-2050. In short: Shell has no plan at all how to reach net zero emissions in 2050. The already ongoing climate case at the Supreme Court covers Shel's climate policy up to 2030. This new climate case also covers the period up to 2050.

We demand Shell:

1. To stop its investments in new oil and gas fields.

2. To align its emissions reductions (scope 1,2 and 3) with 1.5°C from 2035 up to 2050.

More information:

Legal Notice of liability (Dutch version) (English version)
Report “Developing disaster” on Shell’s fossil expansion plans, based on data from Rystad Energy’s UCube database
Fact sheet highlighting the key findings of the report “Developing disaster”. </aside>

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Legal Strategy

Defending the Danger Line

The climate case against Shell is based on an inspiring legal strategy. The building blocks of this legal strategy can be used in a wide range of climate cases against corporations and governments all over the world and are therefore the starting point of this tool. It's important to realize these building blocks do not stand alone, but are connected to each other. Furthermore, the summary of the building blocks is non-exhaustive. Extensive information can be found in the legal documents themselves. The legal documents contain valuable argumentation lines, insights, and expertise with regard to a wide range of topics such as climate science, business and human rights, scope 3 accountability, the division between courts and politics, etc.

The legal strategy and all legal documents filed by Milieudefensie in the climate case against Shell are now easily accessible and easy to find in this tool.

Milieudefensie aims to support and inspire litigators, activists, academics, students, or anyone interested in the matter, to achieve climate justice all over the world!

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The case against Royal Dutch Shell was brought by a number of Dutch NGO’s: Vereniging Milieudefensie (Friends of the Earth Netherlands), Stichting Greenpeace Nederland, Stichting ter bevordering van de Fossielvrij-beweging, Landelijke Vereniging tot Behoud van de Waddenzee, Stichting Both ENDS, Vereniging Jongeren Milieu Actief and Stichting Action Aid.

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