Netherlands court orders oil giant Shell to cut emissions

  • Previous discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=27290508

  • > 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?

  • 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?

  • The judgment is here: https://uitspraken.rechtspraak.nl/inziendocument?id=ECLI:NL:... (English version)