With increasing pressure on the oil industry to realize a carbon-free society, Royal Dutch Shell, a major European oil company, has announced a new goal to halve greenhouse gas emissions by 2030. bottom.
Royal Dutch Shell, a major oil company based in the United Kingdom and the Netherlands, announced on the 28th that it aims to halve greenhouse gas emissions from oil refining etc. by 2030 compared to 2016. bottom.
In addition to improving the efficiency of the business in order to achieve the target, the company plans to utilize technologies such as separating carbon dioxide from the emitted gas, recovering it, and confining it deep underground.
Regarding the Royal Dutch Shell, a Dutch court decided in May in a trial filed by environmental groups and others, and compared emissions including greenhouse gases generated from products sold to customers by 2030 compared to 2019. He was sentenced to a 45% reduction.
Although the company has appealed, it has been forced to further reduce greenhouse gases this time as pressure on the oil industry increases.
However, the reduction target does not include greenhouse gases generated from products sold to customers, and it seems that discussions will continue on how much companies will be responsible for reducing emissions.