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The weekly round-up on the climate crisis and data on carbon dioxide levels in the atmosphere. That limiting the increase in global temperatures to within 1.5°C, as established in the 2015 Paris Agreement, is an impossible mission without the transition from fossil fuels to clean energy is certainly no longer news.It is a passage now taken for granted by studies and reports by panels of experts and scholars and it is information also acquired by governments.It is newsworthy, however, if it is an oil company that says it. Last week Shell released the “Energy security scenarios”, a new series of scenarios in which the oil and gas company imagines how the global energy system could change over the course of the century.Between the lines of the report – observe Carbon Brief who analyzed the study in depth – it is clear that staying below 1.5°C means immediately putting an end to oil and gas growth. This is certainly new considering that, in previou...

The weekly round-up on the climate crisis and data on carbon dioxide levels in the atmosphere. The greater intensity and frequency of extreme meteorological phenomena are now causing enormous damage at all latitudes and unfortunately the death of many people caught unprepared by events for which we were not prepared.We have also seen it in Italy, recently in Emilia-Romagna twice within a few weeks, and last September in the Marche.But early warning systems and better management of the devastating effects of these catastrophic events can save many human lives.At least according to what one reports study by the World Meteorological Organization (WMO). Floods in Emilia-Romagna:an announced disaster and because climate change is also involved According to the report, in the countries most exposed to the consequences of the climate crisis, floods, storms and fires have caused trillions of dollars in economic damage over the last half century, but the number of human victims has f...

The Supreme Court of London has decided to give voice to continue human rights violations perpetrated on the inhabitants of the Niger River coast by the local supply chain of the multinational oil company Shell.The decision was taken following complaints from over 13,000 farmers and fishermen in the communities of Ogale and Billeper regarding the damage caused by decades of continuous oil extraction in the Nigerian republic.The ruling of the English Court therefore provides for the start of a trial in which, however, the opposing party has already declared that "Shell has no intention of leaving Nigeria", despite the fact that the institutions have ascertained the company's responsibility for the pollution of the territory where it operates.The environmental and human health damage caused by the oil spill have tragically outlined a contamination with roots too deep to be ignored any longer. For over 60 years the Shell Petroleum Development Company of Nigeria (SPDC) extracts o...

With the U.S. government promising over US$360 billion in clean energy incentives under the Inflation Reduction Act, energy companies are already lining up investments. It’s a huge opportunity, and analysts project that it could help slash U.S. greenhouse gas emissions by about 40% within the decade. But in conversations with energy industry leaders in recent months, we have heard that financial incentives alone aren’t enough to meet the nation’s goal of reaching net-zero emissions by 2050. In the view of some energy sector leaders, reaching net zero emissions will require more pressure from regulators and investors and accepting technologies that aren’t usually thought of as the best solutions to the climate crisis. ‘Net-zero,’ with natural gas In spring 2022, we facilitated a series of conversations at Penn State University around energy and climate with leaders at several major energy companies – including Shell USA, and electric u...

Oil giant Shell has won its appeal against a landmark climate ruling issued by a Dutch court in 2021.The court, following accusations made by the NGO Milieudefensie, had ordered the fossil multinational to reduce its greenhouse gas emissions by 45% by 2030 compared to 2019 levels.However, the appeals court ruled that although Shell has a “special responsibility” to reduce its emissions as a major oil company, such reduction cannot be imposed as a specific legal target. Three years ago, a verdict issued by a court in The Hague, the company's registered office, had sanctioned how Shell's sustainability policy - which had established a 20% reduction in emissions by 2030 - was not very "concrete".For this reason the company was required to comply with the provisions of the 2015 Paris Agreement, imposing a 45% reduction compared to 2019 emissions by 2030.The decision came following a complaint from the environmentalist association Milieudefensie, member of the internat...