by Oui
Wed Jan 22nd, 2025 at 06:00:27 PM EST
Greenpeace celebrates 'party for nature' after nitrogen legal ruling, agricultural sector shocked | De Volkskrant |
The nitrogen ruling by the court in The Hague has hit the agricultural sector like a bombshell. Greenpeace and other environmental organisations are delighted with the ruling, which obliges the state to quickly reduce nitrogen emissions.
Andy Palmen (center), director of Greenpeace Netherlands, is congratulated on his legal victory immediately after the verdict of the Hague court. (Photo David van Dam / de Volkskrant)
Royal Dutch Shell plc (Shell) today
announced a final investment decision to build an 820,000-tonnes-a-year biofuels facility at the Shell Energy and Chemicals Park Rotterdam.
As a result of a number victories in court cases by environmental groups, the rightwing VVD party (Mark Rutte) now propose legislation to limit protest and criminalize participants of traffic blockades.
Dutch government ordered to cut nitrogen pollution -- or face 10M fine | Politico |
Greenpeace's victory means that PM Dick Schoof must achieve emission-reduction targets by 2030 or face the penalty.
(26 May 2021) - The Hague District Court has ordered Royal Dutch Shell (RDS) to reduce the CO2 emissions of the Shell group by net 45% in 2030, compared to 2019 levels, through the Shell group's corporate policy.
Claimants' right of action
This order has been given in proceedings initiated by seven foundations and associations as well as over 17,000 individual claimants. The claimants believe that as the policy-setting head of the Shell group, RDS takes insufficient action, acts unlawfully, and should do more to reduce CO2 emissions. In their claims they demanded that by 2030 CO2 emissions will have been reduced by 45%, or alternatively, 35% or 25%, compared to 2019 levels. The claims concern the CO2 emissions of the Shell group itself as well as those of its suppliers and customers.
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