[HN Gopher] Netherlands court orders oil giant Shell to cut emis...
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Netherlands court orders oil giant Shell to cut emissions
Author : gingersnap
Score : 24 points
Date : 2021-05-26 21:53 UTC (1 hours ago)
(HTM) web link (www.bbc.com)
(TXT) w3m dump (www.bbc.com)
| seiferteric wrote:
| Assuming the oil mostly comes from abroad, what's to stop shell
| from "achieving" the 45% cut by simply selling the production
| capacity, contracts, wells etc to someone else?
| mpfundstein wrote:
| and who is going to enforce that? in the worst case Shell moves
| to England. Stupid activist judges at it again making political
| statements with symbolic rulings.
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| we had the same thing when a judge ruled that the Dutch
| government isnt doing enough against climate change.
| greenyoda wrote:
| Previous discussion:
| https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=27290508
| tchalla wrote:
| > The company's defence is that if people feel progress towards
| cutting emissions is too slow, they should lobby governments -
| not Shell - to change policies and introduce financial
| incentives.
|
| Do you agree with Shell's defence? If you do not, what's the role
| of government for the society?
| timwaagh wrote:
| sounds so logical. but i dont think it works that way, in NL at
| least. international agreements are considered legally binding,
| just like laws are or perhaps they even supersede them. the
| court might therefore hold a company or individual to comply
| with a treaty. shell's defense may not be valid, i think. still
| it's a black day for NL. we're still very much a petroleum
| economy.
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