Environmental group targets 30 major corporate emitters with lawsuits

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AMSTERDAM/LONDON - The Dutch wing of environmental group Friends of the Earth, which won a landmark court victory against Royal Dutch Shell last year, is targeting 30 major corporate emitters in a ca

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"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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