New Shell Oil Documents: “Dirty Pearls” Investigation 2023-24

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

Page 3 of Snippets of confidential Shell UK November 1989 Scenarios

Contributed to DocumentCloud by Kert Davies (Climate Investigations Center) • View document or read text





Page 1 of Shell Briefing Service Air pollution An oil industry perspective nr1 1987

Contributed to DocumentCloud by Kert Davies (Climate Investigations Center) • View document or read text

Page 39 of Shell Sustainability report 1998 Post GCC membership version

Contributed to DocumentCloud by Kert Davies (Climate Investigations Center) • View document or read text



The whole collection can be searched on DocumentCloud below:

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