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Title: Shell’s ambition to be a net-zero emissions energy business
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Shell has set itself an ambition to become by 2050 or sooner a net-zero emissions energy business.
Shell’s ambition to be a net-zero emissions energy business Transcript
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Our climate ambition
Shell is aiming to become a net-zero emissions energy business by 2050 or sooner.
We intend to meet our customers’ demand for cleaner energy, keeping in pace with society.
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A journey
With this approach, we want to contribute to achieving a net-zero world, where society stops adding to the 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 warming to 1.5° Celsius.
This is going to take a lot of work. And, today, Shell’s business plans will not get us to where we want to be. We are on a journey and recognise the need to change. We must also work with our customers as they make changes too.
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Our approach
Shell is improving our own operations over time, addressing energy efficiency and capturing or offsetting unavoidable greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions.
Most GHG emissions come from our customers’ use of our products. So we are also looking for ways to help customers cut their GHG emissions.
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We are an energy provider
We are working to offer customers more, lower-carbon products, from renewable electricity to hydrogen. We aim to reduce the carbon intensity of the energy products we sell by 30% by 2035 and by 65% by 2050 compared with 2016, keeping in pace with society.
Link to SHORT-TERM TARGETS
Link to THE NET CARBON FOOTPRINT MODEL: METHODOLOGY PDF (0.8MB)
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We are an energy user
We aim to be net-zero on emissions generated by all our operations, as well as on emissions associated with the energy we need to power them. Our ambition is that any GHG emissions from making our products that cannot be avoided will be captured or offset using technology and nature.
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We are a partner for change
We are working with our customers to help them address the GHG emissions they produce when they use products bought from us, as well as to help them find ways to reduce their overall carbon footprint. We are also coming together with businesses, governments and others to address emissions in different sectors.
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What are we already doing?
While our business plans today will not get us to where we want to be, we are already changing.
Link to DISCOVER EXAMPLES OF HOW WE ARE MOVING TOWARDS OUR AMBITION
Link to AVOID, REDUCE, OFFSET
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At Home
In Great Britain, we provide hundreds of thousands of homes with 100% certified renewable electricity as standard.
Link to SHELL ENERGY
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On the Move
We are meeting the growing needs of electric vehicle drivers – at home, at work or on the road. In total, we offer drivers access to more than 200,000 electric vehicle charging facilities in more than 30 countries.
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For Business
In 2019, we bought a company called Limejump, a digital platform based in London which helps small generators of renewable energy optimise their sales of electricity to the grid.
Link to LIMEJUMP
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Generating Cleaner Power
NoordzeeWind, a Shell joint venture, is a supplier of renewable energy into the European market through its 36 offshore wind turbines.
Embedded YouTube video: How does wind power work? | Electricity
Link to Download the Shell electric Noordzeewind video transcript (DOC 0.1MB)
Link to BUILDING A LOWER-CARBON POWER BUSINESS
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Our Operations
Our Shell-owned service stations in the UK are powered by renewable electricity. We are also using solar power at a growing number of our sites, including an installation for a lubricants plant in Singapore that could avoid up to a third of the GHG emissions from its electricity use.
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Our Operations
A Shell installation producing gas in the North Sea was the first of its kind to be powered by wind and solar energy.
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Capturing Emissions
In the UK, Shell is part of a group of companies studying the feasibility of building one of the first CCS projects in the country. In Canada, our Quest carbon capture and storage facility has already captured and safely stored over 5 million tonnes of CO2.
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Aviation Sector
Amazon Air has secured up to six million gallons of sustainable aviation fuel – made partly from biomass and waste – supplied by Shell Aviation and produced by World Energy.
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Shipping Sector
Together with Deloitte, we’ve captured the industry view of how to decarbonise shipping.
Link to DELOITTE/SHELL SHIPPING REPORT
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Heavy road transport sector
Hydrogen has the potential to be an important, safe, low-carbon transport fuel, particularly for heavy-duty transport such as trucks and buses.
Link to HYDROGEN
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Heavy road transport sector
We offer nature-based carbon credits to business customers operating heavy- and light-duty fleets in 10 countries across Europe and Asia.
Link to NATURE-BASED SOLUTIONS
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