2 February 2007
Governments should impose more rules to limit emissions of carbon dioxide and other gases blamed for global warming, said the head of RoyalDutch Shell PLC, Europe’s largest oil company.
“Governments, plural, should make international frameworks” to limit carbon dioxide, Shell PLC chief executive Jeroen van der Veer said in London on Thursday at an earnings press conference. “CO2 will play a major role in our industry and we have to develop more technology.”
Energy executives from other energy companies have called for more regulation. Duke Energy Corp. chief executive James Rogers, who runs the largest U.S. utility, advocates a U.S. national cap on carbon dioxide emissions.