Achieving Net-zero Emissions

Tackling climate change is an urgent challenge. We will contribute to a net-zero world, where society stops adding to the total amount of greenhouse gas emissions in the atmosphere.

That is why we have set a target to become a net-zero emissions energy business by 2050. This supports the more ambitious goal to tackle climate change laid out in the UN Paris Agreement: to limit the rise in average global temperature to 1.5° Celsius this century compared to pre-industrial levels.

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Becoming a net-zero emissions energy business means that we are reducing emissions from our operations, and from the fuels and other energy products we sell to our customers. It also means capturing and storing remaining emissions using technology or compensating them with carbon credits.

We are transforming our business and finding new opportunities – providing more low-carbon energy such as biofuels, hydrogen, charging for electric vehicles and electricity generated by solar and wind power.

We are partnering with customers, businesses and others to address emissions, including in sectors that are difficult to decarbonise such as aviation, shipping, road freight and industry. Partnering with others includes supporting government policies to reduce carbon emissions, sector by sector. We will continue to drive innovation to provide the low-carbon energy that our customers need.

• Shell's target is to become a net-zero emissions energy business by 2050.
• To help step up the pace of change, in October 2021, we set a target to reduce absolute emissions by 50% by 2030, compared to 2016 levels on a net basis. This covers all emissions in Scope 1, which come directly from our operations, and in Scope 2, from the energy we buy to run our operations, under our operational control.
• This complements our targets to reduce the net carbon intensity of the energy products we sell. This includes short-term targets of 3-4% by 2022, 6-8% by 2023, and 9-12% by 2024 and 9-13% by 2025 (compared to 2016).
• It also includes medium- and long-term targets of 20% by 2030, 45% by 2035, and 100% by 2050 (compared to 2016).
• By 2025, our aim is to eliminate routine flaring of gas, which generates carbon emissions, from our upstream operations.
• Our target to keep methane emissions intensity below 0.2% was met in 2022.