CPC Corporation, Taiwan receives carbon neutral LNG cargo from Shell

Credits used for this deal are purchased from Shell’s global portfolio of nature-based projects, including the Katingan Peatland Restoration and Conservation Project in Indonesia, the Cordillera Azul National Park Project in Peru and The Form Reforestation Project in Ghana. Nature-based projects protect, transform or restore land and enable nature to add oxygen and absorb CO₂ emissions from the atmosphere. Each carbon credit is subject to a third-party verification process and represents the avoidance or removal of 1 tonne of CO₂.

This is the third carbon neutral LNG cargo that Shell has delivered to its customers. The first two were delivered to Tokyo Gas in Japan and GS Energy in Korea in 2019. This is enabling the companies to offer carbon neutral energy to their customers. A recent example is the launch of Tokyo Gas’s third Hydrogen refuelling station that processes Hydrogen using the carbon neutral LNG.

“We are very happy to be partnering with CPC to further extend our carbon neutral LNG offer,” said Slavko Preočanin, Vice President Shell LNG Marketing & Trading. “Using nature-based offsets in conjunction with LNG will help CPC to address their own emissions today and support the needs of their end customers looking to decarbonise their energy use.”

The transition to a low-carbon energy future requires a range of solutions, including natural gas – which emits between 45 and 55% fewer greenhouse gas emissions and less than one-tenth of the air pollutants than coal when used to generate electricity – wind and solar, biofuels, batteries and hydrogen. Nature-based carbon credits also have a role to play in addition to robust decabonisation across the global energy system.

_{*The terms “carbon neutral”, “carbon off-set” or “carbon off-set compensation” indicate that Shell has engaged in a transaction to ensure that an amount of carbon dioxide equivalent to that associated with the production, delivery and usage of the fuel has been removed from the atmosphere through a nature-based process or emissions saved through avoided deforestation.}

_{Further information on Shell’s Net Carbon Footprint ambition and investments in natural ecosystems.}