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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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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.
We play three roles
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.
While our business plans today will not get us to where we want to be, we are already changing.
As an energy provider
In Great Britain, we provide hundreds of thousands of homes with 100% certified renewable electricity as standard.
Shell EnergyAs an energy provider
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.
Electric-vehicle chargingAs an energy provider
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.
LimejumpAs an energy provider
NoordzeeWind, a Shell joint venture, is a supplier of renewable energy into the European market through its 36 offshore wind turbines.
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Building a lower-carbon power businessAs an energy user
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.
As an energy user
A Shell installation producing gas in the North Sea was the first of its kind to be powered by wind and solar energy.
Using solar at our sitesAs an energy user
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.
Quest CCSAs a partner for change
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.
AmazonAs a partner for change
Together with Deloitte, we’ve captured the industry view of how to decarbonise shipping.
Deloitte/Shell shipping reportAs a partner for change
Hydrogen has the potential to be an important, safe, low-carbon transport fuel, particularly for heavy-duty transport such as trucks and buses.
HydrogenAs a partner for change
We offer nature-based carbon credits to business customers operating heavy- and light-duty fleets in 10 countries across Europe and Asia.
Nature-based solutions