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@JamesGDyke
Oct 26 • 10 tweets • 3 min read Twitter logo Read on Twitter
It is sometimes said that working with fossil fuel companies will help them decarbonise. Is that working? Take @Shell for example. Here are some relevant announcements & reporting over past 6 months.
1 - 25th October 2023 "Shell boss set to cut jobs from low-carbon division: Wael Sawan ready to axe 200 roles from division as part of plan to grow profits”
theguardian.com/business/2023/…
2 - 21st October 2023 "Shell CEO Wael Sawan has vowed to aggressively target profitability and bigger dividends for shareholder”
standard.co.uk/business/shell…
3 - 31st August 2023 "Shell Scraps Its $100M Carbon Offset Plan”
carboncredits.com/shell-scraps-i…
4 - 27th July 2023 "As Shell reports £3.9 billion in Q2 profits amidst deadly heatwave, its oil and gas investment is forecast to increase by 10%" globalwitness.org/en/press-relea…
5 - 6th July 2023 "Shell CEO calls it ‘irresponsible’ to cut oil production now”
apnews.com/article/shell-…
6 - 15th June 2023 "Shell Joins Fellow Majors In Refocus On Core Oil And Gas Business”
forbes.com/sites/davidbla…
7 - 14th June 2023 "Shell plans to increase fossil fuel production despite its net-zero pledge"
npr.org/2023/06/14/118…
For the past 116 years @Shell has been an oil & gas company, one of the largest in the world. Last year the vast majority of it $380billion revenue was generated by extracting, processing & selling fossil fuels. Is it any surprise that its core business continues to be oil & gas?
On what basis can another organisation argue that they can have any impact on @Shell's core business? I am genuinely interested in answers to these questions.

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As someone who has spent over a decade writing/talking about climate change, I’ve often felt like I have been waiting for the penny to drop: for society to recognise the catastrophe that we are heading towards. 1/6
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1⃣Since their invention in the 1950s, 8.3billion tons of plastics have been produced. 80% of it has ended up in landfill or the environment. Recyling was thought to be a solution to the plastic problem. But it may be making it worse. A 🧵 inews.co.uk/opinion/recycl…
2⃣A recent study on a UK plastics recyling facility discovered that it was releasing billions of microplastic particles in each cubic meter of waste water & this is one of the better run facilities having installed microparticle filters. sciencedirect.com/science/articl…
3⃣We've only recently realised that plastic breaks down into tiny fragments - microplastics. These are now everywhere: highest mountains, deepest oceans, in our lungs, in our blood. What are the long-term health impact of this? Science says🤷‍♀️. sciencenews.org/article/microp…
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1⃣This week I was told that my talk about net zero at @TEDTalks is being circulated by some within the COP27 negotiations as evidence that scientists say that 1.5 is now impossible and so the Paris Agreement should be watered down. jamesgdyke.info/acknowledging-…
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1⃣I am a perhaps strangely optimistic person given my day job. But over the past few months there has been this building sense of dread & despair. Not so much about env' change, but societies' unravelling as a consequence to such change. Sorry to lay that on you🧵
2⃣It seems more & more people are protesting, getting arrested, prosecuted, convicted, going to prison. I get the objectives in movements such as @JustStop_Oil @ExtinctionR. And the inevitably that the UK & other governments respond with more draconion laws.
3⃣So I watch young people put themselves at risk physically, mentally in taking desperate action.
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In June this year I gave a talk at TED about net zero. It’s from 25min in this recording of the session. I don’t know if @Ted will produce a standalone video for my talk. Yes, I would like them to do that, no I don’t know how such decisions get made. ted.com/talks/ted_coun…
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1⃣We are not going to limit warming to no more than 1.5°C. Anyone who says otherwise is misinformed, or in denial, or dishonest. Does that mean we are doomed in the future? Ask that question to someone suffering the brutal heat in India. eu.usatoday.com/story/news/wor…
2⃣Accepting the failure of the Paris Agreement means stopping asking for "more political will". We cannot continue to have faith in the political & economic systems that are unable to deliver the scale of change required. unfccc.int/process-and-me…
3⃣We've had decades of fine words & pledges but the fundamentals remain. 80% of global energy is still supplied by fossil fuels. That's 1970s levels. iea.org/reports/world-…
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