BAKU, Azerbaijan, Apr.8
By Leman Zeynalova - Trend:
By 2030, Royal Dutch Shel will end routine flaring of gas from the assets it operates, Trend reports with reference to the company.
The company believes its emissions peaked in 2018 and it will continue to work to bring them down.
“We will reduce emissions from our own operations, including the production of oil and gas, by increasing energy efficiency and capturing or offsetting any remaining emissions. Emissions from our own operations make up less than 10 percent of our total emissions.
Most of our emissions come from the use of the energy we sell, so we aim to help our customers cut their emissions when they use that energy. Importantly, our target includes emissions not only from the energy we produce and process ourselves, but also from all the energy products that others produce, such as oil, gas, biofuels and electricity, and that we sell to our customers,” said Shell.
Shell’s target is to become a net-zero emissions energy business by 2050, in step with society's progress in achieving the goal of the UN Paris Agreement on climate change.
“With this target, we will contribute to a net-zero world, where society stops adding to the total amount of greenhouse gases (GHGs) in the atmosphere. This supports the most ambitious goal to tackle climate change laid out in the Paris Agreement: to limit the rise in average global temperature to 1.5 degrees Celsius above pre-industrial levels.”
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