Shell Says Support for Energy Shift Will Wane If Prices Soar
- Oil giant begins Dutch appeal over climate order in The Hague
- Shell sued by NGO over its lack of climate change ambition
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Support for the energy transition will wane if ordinary citizens aren’t able to keep the lights on, a lawyer for Shell Plc argued as a crucial climate case got underway.
Lawyers for Shell said on the first day of the appeal in The Hague that a 2021 ruling ordering the oil and gas giant to slash its greenhouse gases faster had no legal basis, would be ineffective and counterproductive and could have disastrous consequences for the Netherlands.