- The oil industry should support policies to curb climate change, including a carbon pricing system and a shift from coal to natural gas, Royal Dutch Shell (RDS.A, RDS.B) CEO Ben Van Beurden says.
- Energy producers should stop keeping a low profile on the issue, and must inject “realism and practicality” into the debate; “You cannot talk credibly about lowering emissions globally if, for example, you are slow to acknowledge climate change... and if you always descend into the ‘jobs vs. environment’ argument in the public debate,” the CEO says.
- Instead, environmental groups have dominated the debate over how to shape global warming policy, according to Van Beurden.