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Shell ordered to cut its emissions – why this ruling could affect almost any major company in the world

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par Arthur Petersen, Professor of Science, Technology and Public Policy, UCL

Dutch judges have ordered the major oil and gas company, Royal Dutch Shell, to implement stringent carbon dioxide emissions cuts within the next few years. It is a ruling which could have far reaching consequences.

Six years after a first landmark climate ruling against the Dutch government, the district court of The Hague (administrative capital of the Netherlands) has again surprised the world by ordering…

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