{"id":416996,"date":"2021-05-27T08:47:16","date_gmt":"2021-05-27T03:17:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/?p=416996"},"modified":"2021-05-27T09:39:12","modified_gmt":"2021-05-27T04:09:12","slug":"investors-dutch-court-deliver-stark-warning-for-big-oil-on-climate","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/investors-dutch-court-deliver-stark-warning-for-big-oil-on-climate\/","title":{"rendered":"Investors, Dutch court deliver &#8216;stark warning for Big Oil&#8217; on climate"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>(Reuters) &#8211; Shareholders rebuked the top two U.S. oil companies on Wednesday for dragging their feet on fighting climate change, while a Dutch court ruled that Royal Dutch Shell needs to accelerate cuts to greenhouse gas emissions. <\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Today was a stark warning for Big Oil,&#8221; said Bess Joffe, of the Church Commissioners for England, which manages the Church of England&#8217;s investment fund, with executives &#8220;being held to account by investors and lawmakers.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Exxon Mobil lost at least two board seats to an activist hedge fund, shareholders at Chevron endorsed a call to further reduce its emissions and a court deemed Royal Dutch Shell&#8217;s emissions targets insufficient.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>(Reuters) &#8211; Shareholders rebuked the top two U.S. oil companies on Wednesday for dragging their feet on fighting climate change, while a Dutch court ruled that Royal Dutch Shell needs to accelerate cuts to greenhouse gas emissions. &#8220;Today was a stark warning for Big Oil,&#8221; said Bess Joffe, of the Church Commissioners for England, which manages the Church of England&#8217;s investment fund, with executives &#8220;being held to account by investors and lawmakers.&#8221; Exxon Mobil lost at least two board seats to an activist hedge fund, shareholders at Chevron endorsed a call to further reduce its emissions and a court deemed [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":40,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[135,130,169],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-416996","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-business-standard-newspapers","category-newspapers","category-oil-gas-business-standard-newspapers"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/416996","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/40"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=416996"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/416996\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=416996"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=416996"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=416996"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}