partnership with the corporation, Energy Transitions Commission. The platform focuses on developing partnerships for enabling the heavy industry and heavy-duty transport sectors to achieve net-zero carbon emissions. For example, we joined the Global Maritime Forum’s Getting to Zero shipping coalition announced at the UN Climate Summit in New York in 2019. The coalition brings together more than 90 companies from a
The coalition aims to find a way to put a commercially viable net-zero emissions ship to sea by 2030.
range of backgrounds, including maritime, energy and finance, to engineer clean fuels and vessels while pushing to ensure these are supported by adequate infrastructure, such as ports.
Lower-carbon Electricity In 2019, we stepped up our activities in generating and trading lower-carbon electricity, as well as providing it directly to customers.These activities are part of our aim to make power a significant business for Shell – a business that, in the future, could sit alongside oil, gas and chemicals. Electricity from renewable sources, such as wind and solar, can be combined with the electricity produced from natural gas. Providing cleaner sources of power. 15
