[HN Gopher] Netherlands court orders oil giant Shell to cut emis... ___________________________________________________________________ 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. | | 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. ___________________________________________________________________ (page generated 2021-05-26 23:00 UTC)