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...Adjustments could include dropping the commitment made by previous Shell boss Ben van Beurden to allow the company’s oil production to decline by 1 to 2 per cent a year from 2019 as part of its plan to cut...
...“That was one of the big disappointments of 2022,” said Mark van Baal, head of Follow This....
...Exxon’s and Chevron’s responses to van Baal’s resolutions are in their proxy statements. Write in with your views: derek.brower@ft.com....
...Willy van WalleghemBruges, Belgium...
...Sawan’s oil and gas message was different in tone to that of his predecessor Ben van Beurden, who launched Shell’s 2021 strategy to gradually transform the company into a clean energy provider and cut its...
...Wells Fargo has hired Derek Van Zandt from Citigroup to lead media and telecommunications banking, Bloomberg reported....
...Mark van Baal, head of Follow This, an activist shareholder that has taken small stakes in Big Oil, said BP had “backtracked” on its emissions plan and could no longer claim to be aligned with the Paris...
...Additional reporting by Derek Brower in New York...
...Other events include a major Van Gogh exhibition in September. From May 10; Find information, tickets and programme here....
...The next protest might involve something stronger than tinned soup and a target less protected than a Van Gogh....
...(James Politi and Derek Brower) Data Drill Coal accounted for most power generation growth last year, the first time since 2013, says a new report by BloombergNEF....
...“[Governments] will be looking at companies like us who benefit from the volatility and the prices that we see, to fund the programmes they are rolling out,” van Beurden said last week after Shell reported...
...Shell’s chief executive Ben van Beurden warned that Europe faces “a number of winters” in which it will face potential energy shortages....
...Cobalt blue – the colour of Renoir’s lakes, van Gogh’s nightfall and Georgia O’Keeffe’s New Mexico skies – achieves this....
...Walleghem, Bruges, Belgium...
...Its CEO Jos van der Westhuizen doesn’t claim that virtual paintball is better than the real thing, but it is more accessible, easier to set up and can save money....
...These investors are the change agents of Big Oil as oil majors will not change on their own accord,” said Follow This founder Mark van Baal....
...Chris Van Hollen, a Democratic senator from Maryland, did not name India but described countries that had increased imports of Russian oil at discounted prices as “essentially war profiteering”....
...(He has a drawing on his bedroom wall, executed by the artist Derek Jarman, of the Great Pyramid.)...
...This is an exhibition that pays attention to the artist Derek Jarman but ignores Candyman-creator Clive Barker, which I assume must be a conscious choice....
...“Net zero for operations by 2050 is mere tokenism and no serious attempt to address investors’ concerns about the climate crisis,” van Baal told ES....
...The other side included Cipollone, Eric Herschmann, another White House lawyer, and White House aide Derek Lyons, who urged the president to reject such conspiracy theories....
...Additional reporting by Derek Brower and Joe Rennison...
...Mark van Baal, head of Follow This, an activist shareholder group which holds a small stake in Shell, expressed scepticism over whether a break-up of the company would have any significant environmental...
...But the fact that [Wirth] keeps on repeating ‘I want to grow my oil and gas business’ is not promising,” van Baal said....
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