{"id":446098,"date":"2021-10-29T10:16:21","date_gmt":"2021-10-29T04:46:21","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/?p=446098"},"modified":"2021-10-29T11:29:47","modified_gmt":"2021-10-29T05:59:47","slug":"shell-sets-tougher-climate-targets-q3-profit-below-expectations","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/shell-sets-tougher-climate-targets-q3-profit-below-expectations\/","title":{"rendered":"Shell sets tougher climate targets, Q3 profit below expectations"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Royal Dutch Shell set itself tougher emissions-cutting targets on Thursday, even as it reported a lower-than-expected third-quarter profit of $4.13 billion. <\/p>\n<p>The oil major said that it would cut absolute emissions from its operations and the electricity it uses, known as Scope 1 and 2 emissions, by half by 2030 compared with 2016.<\/p>\n<p>The company has pledged to become a net-zero emissions company by 2050 but has come under pressure to make faster progress, with a Dutch court ordering it in May to cut all of its emissions &#8211; including from the combustion of its products by customers, or Scope 3 &#8211; by 45% by 2030.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Royal Dutch Shell set itself tougher emissions-cutting targets on Thursday, even as it reported a lower-than-expected third-quarter profit of $4.13 billion. The oil major said that it would cut absolute emissions from its operations and the electricity it uses, known as Scope 1 and 2 emissions, by half by 2030 compared with 2016. The company has pledged to become a net-zero emissions company by 2050 but has come under pressure to make faster progress, with a Dutch court ordering it in May to cut all of its emissions &#8211; including from the combustion of its products by customers, or Scope [&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":[146,130,177],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-446098","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-deccan-herald-newspapers","category-newspapers","category-oil-gas-deccan-herald-newspapers"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/446098","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=446098"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/446098\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=446098"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=446098"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=446098"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}