Environmental
Meet regulatory requirements and voluntary carbon reduction goals
Shell Energy offtakes, develops, trades, markets, optimizes and hedges environmental products to meet our customers’ sustainability goals. We also supply a variety of voluntary carbon credit solutions to meet the needs of customers looking to reduce their net carbon footprint. With regional hubs in London, San Diego, Shanghai and Singapore, Shell is one of the largest environmental product traders in the world, operating in compliance and voluntary emissions markets globally. As a leader in the field, Shell has set many milestones in emissions market history, including being the first company to: • Execute a trade in European Union Allowances (EUAs) • Trade US federal CO2 compliance futures contracts on the Chicago Climate Futures Exchange • Trade a carbon product usable under a mandatory US cap-and-trade programme • Take delivery of Certified Emission Reductions (CERs) under the United Nations Clean Development Mechanism programme |