Notre victoire contre l’un des plus gros pollueurs du monde

A statement by Milieudefensie (Friends of the Earth Netherlands) regarding a landmark legal victory against Shell, where a Dutch court ordered the company to reduce its CO2 emissions by 45% within ten years to align with the Paris Agreement.

• A Dutch court ruled that Shell is responsible for causing dangerous climate change and ordered the company to reduce its CO2 emissions by 45% over a ten-year period.
• The legal action against Shell was supported by 17,379 Dutch citizens and six civil society organizations acting as co-plaintiffs, and was funded primarily through small public donations.
• The lawsuit argued that Shell violated its duty of care and threatened human rights—specifically the right to life and the right to respect for private and family life under Articles 2 and 8 of the European Convention on Human Rights—by undermining efforts to limit global warming to 1.5°C.
• The case drew on legal precedents from the 2019 Urgenda case, in which a Dutch court of appeal ruled that the state's failure to meet climate goals violated human rights and ordered a minimum 25% reduction in greenhouse gas emissions by the end of 2020.
• The author notes that Shell emitted 1.38 billion tonnes of CO2 in 2020 and continues oil drilling operations in Nigeria.

APA

Pols, D. (2021). Notre victoire contre l’un des plus gros pollueurs du monde. Friends of the Earth International. https://www.foei.org/fr/notre-victoire-contre-lun-des-plus-gros-pollueurs-du-monde/

Chicago

Pols, Donald. Notre victoire contre l’un des plus gros pollueurs du monde. Friends of the Earth International, 2021. https://www.foei.org/fr/notre-victoire-contre-lun-des-plus-gros-pollueurs-du-monde/.

Wikipedia

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BibTeX

@misc{pols2021notre, author = {Pols, Donald}, title = {{Notre victoire contre l’un des plus gros pollueurs du monde}}, publisher = {Friends of the Earth International}, year = {2021}, month = jun, url = {https://www.foei.org/fr/notre-victoire-contre-lun-des-plus-gros-pollueurs-du-monde/}, urldate = {2026-10-23}, note = {Indexed by Climate Insights Directory} }