100 climate activists disrupted Shell's AGM, demanding the company end its fossil fuel extraction. The activists spent several hours protesting, refusing to be silenced. They condemned Shell for its continued planet-heating activities.
, more than seven million people in the country are struggling to afford essential energy services as prices have soared amid the war in Ukraine.
“People are struggling under swelling energy bills, yet Shell continues to rake in billions of pounds by profiteering from fuel poverty and war in Ukraine,” Joanna Warrington of Fossil Free London“If we want a safe climate and affordable energy, then we have to stop new oil and gas. That’s why we’re calling on [Shell CEO] Wael Sawan and the bosses of Shell to look beyond their fat paychecks and to shut down Shell. If they don’t, an avalanche of protest will do it for them.
The International Energy Agency and climate scientists have been unequivocal in their increasingly dire warnings regarding fossil fuel extraction, with the formerin 2021 that policymakers must ensure the world begins an immediate transition away from oil, gas, and coal and toward renewable energy sources in order to avoid planetary heating well above 1.5°C, the threshold targeted by the Paris climate agreement.
One campaigner stood up at the company’s annual general meeting on Tuesday and told shareholders and executives a number of deadly disasters that have already been linked to the fossil fuel extraction of firms including Shell, which is committed to continuing its development of drilling sites. “Wildfires across Europe, famine in Madagascar, harvest failures, crop failures,” said the woman as security officers approached to stop her speech. “People are already impacted by the effects of climate breakdown.”
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