mpaign launched on Thursday .
"We are very clear that in the end, if needed, we are willing to go to court. But of course we are hoping these companies will be moving by themselves," Mr De Rijk told Reuters in an interview. Shell is appealing against The Hague district court order to cut emissions in line with the 2015 Paris agreement.
Some of the businesses are"small in the Netherlands itself, but they have a very large, international, global impact and the Shell verdict very clearly states that it is... possible to hold them accountable for their global emissions via the Dutch law", he said.
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