壳牌在可再生能源上的投资增加到40亿美元

中国石化新闻网讯 据今日油价12月27日消息 壳牌天然气和新能源主管Maarten Wetselaar在接受英国卫报采访时表示，壳牌计划将每年在可再生能源上的投资额增加到40亿美元。

这个数字是壳牌目前为清洁能源计划所分配的最大年度投资额的两倍，但只有证明了这些初始投资在财务上有意义，这种增加投资的行为才会发生。

Wetselaar对英国卫报说：“我希望我目前的业务在财务上足够可信，这不仅对公司，而且对股东来说都想把它翻一番，而且可能会投入更多。”

壳牌承诺在未来50年内减少50%的二氧化碳排放量，同时转向更多的可再生能源，包括生物燃料，并提高运营效率。这是全球最大的石油巨头之一决心放弃其主要业务的最新迹象。

首席执行官Ben van Beurden去年表示：“我们的观点是，如果社会需要应对气候变化的双重挑战，但也需要适应更高的能源需求—当然能源相对贫乏的地区也需要获得能源—我们必须将能源系统的碳足迹减少到净零水平。”

壳牌在这方面也受到了激进股东的压力。连续四年，一家以石油巨头为目标的荷兰投资集团Follow This一直在提议，要求该公司更深入地研究可再生能源，并远离其石油核心业务。明年也不例外，Follow This已经提交了一份决议，将在壳牌2019 AGM大会上进行表决，这项决议旨在迫使壳牌将业务目标更接近100多个国家所承诺的《巴黎协议》。

王磊 摘译自 今日油价

原文如下：

Shell plans to increase the annual amount of money it invests in renewable energy to US$4 billion, the supermajor’s head of gas and new energy, Maarten Wetselaar told The Guardian in an interview.

The figure is double the maximum current annual investment Shell has allocated for cleaner energy initiatives but the increase will only materialize if these initial investments prove to make financial sense.

“I would like my current business to be financially credible enough for not only the company, but shareholders, to want to double it and look at more,” Wetselaar told The Guardian.

Shell has pledged to reduce its carbon dioxide emissions by 50 percent over the next five decades as it shifts to more renewable energy, including biofuels, and boosts operational efficiencies, in the latest sign that one of the world’s top Big Oil players is determined to move away from its principal business.

"Our view is if society needs to tackle the dual challenge of climate change but also accommodating higher demand for energy — as of course the energy poor need to get access to energy as well — we have to reduce the carbon footprint of the energy system as a society to a net zero level," chief executive Ben van Beurden said last year.

Shell has been subjected to activist shareholder pressure in this respect as well. For four years in a row, Follow This, a Dutch investment group targeting oil supermajors, has been tabling resolutions requiring the company to move more deeply into renewables and away from its core business in oil. Next year will not be an exception: Follow This has already filed a resolution to be voted at Shell’s 2019 AGM, a resolution seeking to force the company to move its business goals closer to Paris Accord commitments undertaken by more than a hundred countries.