Shell told a Dutch court on Friday that a European climate ruling against the Swiss government supported their appeal against a 2021 Dutch climate ruling because it confirmed that states and not courts should set rules on emissions reductions.
The logo of British multinational oil and gas company Shell is displayed during the LNG 2023 energy trade show in Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada, July 12, 2023. REUTERS/Chris Helgren//File Photo
THE HAGUE, April 12 - against the 2021 Dutch ruling, in which a lower Dutch court ordered Shell to reduce its planet-warming carbon emissions by 45% by 2030 from 2019 levels. That order - a landmark ruling which shocked the energy sector - related not only to Shell's own emissions but also to those caused by the buyers and users of its products worldwide.But he said that in Shell's view, the ECHR decision that the Swiss government had violated the human rights of senior women by not doing enough to combat climate change confirmed Shell's point that emissions were an issue of state responsibility.
"It does support Shell on the point that issuing a demand for emissions reductions for companies is not up to courts" but should be the domain of states, Lunsingh Scheurleer told judges."The European Court of Human Rights confirms that climate change is a human rights issue," lawyer Roger Cox said, adding that courts have a role to ensure companies respect human rights.
A spokesperson for Friends of the Earth Netherlands said that a ruling in the Dutch case is scheduled for November 12, 2024.Johnson Controls said on Friday its subsidiary Tyco Fire Products had agreed to a $750 million settlement with some U.S. public water systems that claimed toxic "forever chemicals" in firefighting foam made by the company had contaminated their water supplies.
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