The activists, including members of Greenpeace and Extinction Rebellion — who were chanting and singing “Shut down Shell' and “Go to hell, Shell” — say Shell and other fossil fuel firms are making record profits at the cost of the environment.
That sparked public anger in the U.K., where millions of households and businesses have“Shell is continuing to drill new oil and gas fields here in the U.K. and around the world in some of the most biodiverse regions in the Philippines and in the Niger Delta," said Carina Manitius, 27, a protester from the group Fossil Free London.
Shell said it respected people's right to express their opinions but that “protesters have shown that they are not interested in constructive engagement.” aimed at limiting global warming to well below 2 degrees Celsius above pre-industrial levels by 2030.Shareholders rejected the proposal. Shell executives said its climate targets are aligned with the Paris agreement's more ambitious goal of limiting the increase in the global average temperature to 1.5 C.
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