Jessica Morris is City A.M.’s industrials reporter. Thursday 30 June 2016 12:06am
The boss of oil major Royal Dutch Shell is set to say that energy demand in the UK will fall, while urging the government to help meet the world’s climate change goals.
Ben van Beurden, chief executive of Shell, will tell an audience at a forum in London later today: “In the UK … demand for energy is likely to level off as a result of, for example, energy efficiency.
“But this does not mean the UK can sit back and relax. It has a legally binding commitment to reduce its carbon emissions by 80 per cent by 2050, from the 1990 level.”
It comes as the government is due to outline its much anticipated fifth carbon budget today. Yesterday, energy secretary, Amber Rudd, reiterated Britain’s commitment to climate action despite uncertainty heralded by the Brexit vote.
The UK is one of nearly 200 nations that committed to cut carbon emissions and limit global warming below two degrees in Paris last year. Economist Nicholas Stern previously warned fossil fuel firms didn’t believe governments were serious in Paris, putting them at risk of financial ruin.
“When it makes business sense, Shell is determined to play its part in meeting the UK’s energy needs while lowering carbon emissions,” van Beurden will say.
“It’s important for governments to create the right conditions for companies to not only deliver energy but to do so with fewer emissions.”
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Royal Dutch Shell conspired directly with Hitler, financed the Nazi Party, was anti-Semitic and sold out its own Dutch Jewish employees to the Nazis. Shell had a close relationship with the Nazis during and after the reign of Sir Henri Deterding, an ardent Nazi, and the founder and decades long leader of the Royal Dutch Shell Group. His burial ceremony, which had all the trappings of a state funeral, was held at his private estate in Mecklenburg, Germany. The spectacle (photographs below) included a funeral procession led by a horse drawn funeral hearse with senior Nazis officials and senior Royal Dutch Shell directors in attendance, Nazi salutes at the graveside, swastika banners on display and wreaths and personal tributes from Adolf Hitler and Reichsmarschall, Hermann Goring. Deterding was an honored associate and supporter of Hitler and a personal friend of Goring.
Deterding was the guest of Hitler during a four day summit meeting at Berchtesgaden. Sir Henri and Hitler both had ambitions on Russian oil fields. Only an honored personal guest would be rewarded with a private four day meeting at Hitler’s mountain top retreat.
IN JULY 2007, MR BILL CAMPBELL (ABOVE, A RETIRED GROUP AUDITOR OF SHELL INTERNATIONAL SENT AN EMAIL TO EVERY UK MP AND MEMBER OF THE HOUSE OF LORDS: 
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