{"id":6409,"date":"2018-05-16T11:39:42","date_gmt":"2018-05-16T09:39:42","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/master.k8s.p4.greenpeace.org\/nl\/?p=6409"},"modified":"2025-07-02T10:31:20","modified_gmt":"2025-07-02T08:31:20","slug":"seeking-justice-the-rising-tide-of-court-cases-against-shell-investor-briefing-may-2018","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.greenpeace.org\/nl\/algemeen\/6409\/seeking-justice-the-rising-tide-of-court-cases-against-shell-investor-briefing-may-2018\/","title":{"rendered":"Seeking justice: the rising tide of court cases against Shell"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"leader\">\n<div>This briefing intends to inform shareholders about the increasing litigation and liability risks facing Royal Dutch Shell and associated entities (hereafter referred to as \u201cShell\u201d) and the societal and environmental issues underlying the legal claims. It suggests questions for investors to ask Shell on these issues.<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div>\n<p>Based on a review of Shell\u2019s latest Annual\u00a0Report, it appears that the information that\u00a0Shell is providing shareholders concerning\u00a0legal investigations and proceedings is\u00a0incomplete.<\/p>\n<p>Shell is being sued for and subject to investigations because of:<br \/>\n\u2022 Pollution and human rights violations in Nigeria;<br \/>\n\u2022 Climate change in the United States, the Philippines and the Netherlands;<br \/>\n\u2022 Corruption in Nigeria;<br \/>\n\u2022 Earthquakes caused by gas extraction in the Netherlands;<br \/>\n\u2022 Environmental pollution.<\/p>\n<p>Briefing May 2018 by Amnesty International,\u00a0Milieudefensie\/Friends of the\u00a0Earth Netherlands, Global Witness and Greenpeace Netherlands<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.greenpeace.org\/static\/planet4-netherlands-stateless\/2018\/06\/Investor-Briefing-Seeking-justice-the-rising-tide-of-court-cases-against-Shell.pdf\">Download the full briefing with summaries of these ongoing cases and investigations against Shell<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This briefing intends to inform shareholders about the increasing litigation and liability risks facing Royal Dutch Shell and associated entities (hereafter referred to as \u201cShell\u201d) and the societal and environmental&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":20,"featured_media":296,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ep_exclude_from_search":false,"p4_og_title":"","p4_og_description":"","p4_og_image":"","p4_og_image_id":"","p4_seo_canonical_url":"","p4_campaign_name":"not set","p4_local_project":"","p4_basket_name":"not set","p4_department":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[17],"tags":[29,32,62],"p4-page-type":[15],"class_list":["post-6409","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-algemeen","tag-olie","tag-gas","tag-brief","p4-page-type-publicaties"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.greenpeace.org\/nl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6409","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.greenpeace.org\/nl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.greenpeace.org\/nl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.greenpeace.org\/nl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/20"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.greenpeace.org\/nl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6409"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/www.greenpeace.org\/nl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6409\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":71205,"href":"https:\/\/www.greenpeace.org\/nl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6409\/revisions\/71205"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.greenpeace.org\/nl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/296"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.greenpeace.org\/nl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6409"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.greenpeace.org\/nl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6409"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.greenpeace.org\/nl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6409"},{"taxonomy":"p4-page-type","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.greenpeace.org\/nl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/p4-page-type?post=6409"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}