Global Briefing: Shell overturns Dutch court order demanding 45 per cent cut in emissions

Stuart Stone
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Oil and gas giant reverses 2021 ruling in blow to climate campaigners, European Parliament delays landmark deforestation legislation by a year, and German city announces 2035 gas grid phase-out

Oil and gas giant Shell this week overturned a landmark Dutch court ruling that required it to cut its carbon emissions by 45 per cent by 2030 against a 2019 baseline. While the appeals court in The...

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