NEW: Shell’s latest billion-pound profits “an affront to the world”

Date: 2 May 2024
Campaigns: Climate

Commenting on Shell’s 2024 Q1 results out today, Izzie McIntosh, climate campaign manager at Global Justice Now said:

As extreme weather accelerates and the cost-of-living crisis rumbles on, Shell’s latest billion-pound profits are an affront to the world. The grotesque wealth that this earth-wrecking company continues to accumulate is something we cannot allow ourselves to accept as normal.

We urgently need to bring a fair and organised end to the fossil fuel era, and that means companies like Shell must stop trying to extract new oil and gas, and start paying what they owe for the loss and damage they’ve caused. Profit announcements like this for a corporate dinosaur like Shell need to become a thing of the past.”