Future Beyond Shell

Russia’s economy depends heavily on oil and gas revenues, and activists and scholars have made the case that Russian President Putin’s war on Ukraine is a fossil-fueled war. In the first 100 days, Russian fossil fuel exports earned Russia 93 …

Oil and war are often tightly bound together, both in terms of war’s causes, and the outcomes. Indeed, Russia’s invasion of Ukraine has caused massive shifts in the oil and gas industry. Soon after the start of the war in …

In this episode and the next few, we are taking a slightly different approach. We want to take stock of a few major events in recent months, how they have affected Shell and the larger oil and gas sector, and …

In order to identify and assess the tools it may take to dismantle a corporation like Shell, we first need a good understanding of how the company operates in the context of the global political economy. What tactics have helped …

In times of economic crisis, bankruptcy has been a frequent fate for struggling corporations. Given the troubled state of the fossil fuel sector, almost 250 oil and gas companies could file for bankruptcy protection in the US by the …

Carbon pricing & trading has come to dominate the debate on how to curb climate change. Its proponents span the field, from governments and corporations to parts of the white climate movement in the Global North. Simply put, with carbon …

This past year, a major court case against Shell, known as the klimaatzaak or climate case in the Netherlands, made headlines around the world as it ruled that the oil and gas company must reduce its carbon emissions by 45% …

There is a long history of court cases against fossil fuel companies on human rights issues. For example, the Ogoni community, an ethnic group in the Niger river delta, has brought many court case against Shell because of oil spills, …

In this final episode, we consider recent proposals to take the fossil fuel industry into the public ownership: specifically, into the ownership of a national government. These proposals argue that nationalization towards a managed phaseout of the industry allows …

Get ready for the 9th of November when we will be launching the first season of the Future Beyond Shell podcast!

Shell has long been impeding any hope of a Just Transition from the fossil fuel age, making an end …