Shell has known that it significantly contributes to climate change for decades • “There is evidence that the greatly increasing use of the fossil fuels, whose material contents after combustion are principally H2O and CO2, is seriously contaminating the earth’s atmosphere with CO2. Analyses indicate that the CO2 content of the atmosphere since 1900 has increased 10 per cent. Since CO2 absorbs long-wavelength radiation, it is possible that this is already producing a secular climatic change in the direction of higher average temperatures. This could have profound effects both on the weather and on the ecological balances.” – Shell’s Energy Resources report, 1962. • In 1988 Shell reports in its internal report ‘The Greenhouse Effect’ that its products were responsible for 4% of global CO2 emissions in 1984.