Shell ordered to cut CO2 emissions by 45% in landmark climate case
>"Shell will adjust its policy so that it will also emit less CO2 in real-time."<p>Yes, they will just dust off their magic wands and wave them round a bit and poof! No more CO2! Because up until now they have just been ignoring all the calls for climate change.<p>I'm incredibly cynical about this. Not because of the naive sounding statement, nor because i care too much about Shells bottom line. It's simply because this will most probably affect not Shell, but drivers at the petrol stations.<p>Also, it sounds unreasonable to tell a company whose principal product produces CO2 to stop making it. Especially when it's extremely necessary.<p>But wait! The litigant actually says this!<p>>but the company will not be able to continue pumping as much oil and gas as they do now.<p>Imagine this. You need some wooden shelves, you go to IKEA and they tell you that the court ordered them to stop selling so much wooden furniture, so no more shelves for you. I'm not sure people would accept that. I'm very, very cynical about this ruling.