According to the latest update to the Carbon Majors database, produced by InfluenceMap, just 36 companies are linked to more than half of global carbon emissions. In total, Carbon Majors has traced 33.9 gigatons of carbon dioxide equivalent (GtCO2e) emissions to 169 active companies in its database for 2023, with its database emissions making up […]
Ogale is a farming community in Nigeria whose residents can no longer farm. Bille is a fishing village where nearly all the fish have died. Both lay the loss of their livelihoods at the feet of oil giant Shell, whose more than half a century of oil exploitation in the Niger Delta has left it […]
Nearly 25 years ago, oil major Shell predicted in an internal 1998 report that a class-action lawsuit would be brought against fossil fuel companies following “a series of violent storms.” That prediction is finally coming true: A group of Puerto Rican communities, which were ravaged by Hurricanes Irma and Maria in 2017, are suing Shell and other fossil fuel […]
Oil giant Shell has paid no windfall tax in the UK and said it did not expect to this year, despite making a record $30 billion in global profits so far in 2022, The Guardian reported. Companies are allowed to reduce their tax payments if they make investments in production, and Shell wasn’t liable because […]
Major fossil fuel company Shell has announced its new CEO, and he is the current head of its renewable energy department. Wael Sawan, current head of the company’s integrated gas and renewables division, will take over for out-going CEO Ben van Beurden on January 1, 2023. “It’s been a privilege to work alongside Ben and […]
Amidst concerns about high energy prices following Russia’s invasion of Ukraine, the UK government has approved a North Sea gas field that it had previously rejected in October over concerns that it would contribute to the climate crisis. The Jackdaw gas field is located to the east of Aberdeen in Scotland and has the potential […]
A teenage girl in California who shut down a toxic oil-drilling site; a Nigerian lawyer who got long-overdue justice for communities devastated by two Shell pipeline spills; two Indigenous Ecuadorians who protected their ancestral lands from gold mining. These are just some of the inspiring winners of this year’s so-called “Green Nobel Prize.” The Goldman […]
The world is currently in a climate crisis. India and Pakistan are sweltering through a record-breaking heat wave, reservoirs in the Western U.S. are straining under a historic drought, and the latest Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change report warns that we must reach net-zero emissions by mid-century in order to avoid the worst impacts of […]
ClientEarth is not only a nonprofit environmental law organization — it has also been a shareholder in the Shell oil company since 2016. Now, ClientEarth is suing Shell’s 13 directors and holding them personally and legally responsible for failing to devise a strategy to prepare the company for net zero emissions, which it says is […]
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