A new collection on ClimateFiles of old Shell documents around climate change is published below.
These documents were uncovered during five years of research by Vatan Hüzeir of Changerism, while a PhD candidate at Erasmus University Rotterdam, as part of his investigation entitled, Dirty pearls: exposing Shell’s hidden legacy of climate change accountability, 1970-1990.
New reporting with additional documents published on January 18, 2024 by DeSmog
The first stories on this material were published on April 1, 2023 by DeSmog:
and by Follow The Money in the Netherlands:
Videos unearthed in the Dirty Pearls investigation
Shell 1981 documentary film: “Time For Energy”, touting coal as the only replacement for oil.
Documents from the Dirty Pearls Investigation