{"id":419544,"date":"2021-06-10T09:00:32","date_gmt":"2021-06-10T03:30:32","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/?p=419544"},"modified":"2021-06-10T09:47:44","modified_gmt":"2021-06-10T04:17:44","slug":"shell-to-accelerate-emissions-cuts-after-dutch-court-ruling-says-ceo","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/shell-to-accelerate-emissions-cuts-after-dutch-court-ruling-says-ceo\/","title":{"rendered":"Shell to accelerate emissions cuts after Dutch court ruling, says CEO"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Royal Dutch Shell Plc will accelerate its carbon emissions cuts, taking \u201cbold but measured\u201d steps in the transition to cleaner energy, following a Dutch court ruling last month that said the company\u2019s climate plans weren\u2019t sufficient.<\/p>\n<p>The oil and gas giant still expects to appeal the verdict and believes it has been unjustly singled out, Chief Executive Ben van Beurden said in a statement posted on LinkedIn. However, the company also feels \u201cdetermination to rise to the challenge\u201d posed by the ruling, he said. <\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe will seek ways to reduce emissions even further in a way that remains purposeful and profitable,\u201d van Beurden said.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Royal Dutch Shell Plc will accelerate its carbon emissions cuts, taking \u201cbold but measured\u201d steps in the transition to cleaner energy, following a Dutch court ruling last month that said the company\u2019s climate plans weren\u2019t sufficient. The oil and gas giant still expects to appeal the verdict and believes it has been unjustly singled out, Chief Executive Ben van Beurden said in a statement posted on LinkedIn. However, the company also feels \u201cdetermination to rise to the challenge\u201d posed by the ruling, he said. \u201cWe will seek ways to reduce emissions even further in a way that remains purposeful and [&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-419544","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\/419544","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=419544"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/419544\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=419544"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=419544"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=419544"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}