Shell got bitten by the Paris Agreement on Climate Change
Fabrice Mattei, Principal Rouse The Paris Agreement has been criticized for not imposing legally binding greenhouse gas emissions targets on countries, but that needn’t mean it’s toothless as the Hague District Court has demonstrated in the climate lawsuit opposing Milieudefensie et al vs. Royal Dutch Shell Plc. On May 26, 2021, in a groundbreaking judgement, the Hague District Court has ordered Royal Dutch Shell Plc (''RDS'') to reduce the Shell group's (RDS and the other Sh