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Producing and supplying LCF for our customers will help decarbonise the transport sector by helping them meet their own decarbonisation ambitions. This means providing an affordable, consistent and robust service, using our experience of maximising our supply chains, and developing our marketing businesses so that we are able to grow the impact our lower-carbon solutions have on customers and society.

Whilst we expect electricity or hydrogen to become the main paths to decarbonisation for fleet, lower-carbon fuels will be needed to decarbonise longer journeys by road, sea and air for decades to come. Biofuels can help commercial transport customers lower emissions by being blended with traditional fuels or as a drop-in fuel and used in vehicles and infrastructure without expensive modification.  This is crucial, because transport accounts for more than a quarter of the world鈥檚 energy use and one-fifth of its energy-related CO₂ emissions.

Shell鈥檚 strategy supports a balanced transition by delivering the oil and gas people need today, while helping to build the clean energy system of the future. Our target to achieve net-zero emissions by 2050 across all our operations and energy products is transforming our business. We believe this target supports the more ambitious goal of the Paris Agreement to limit global warming to 1.5掳 C above pre-industrial levels. By offering customers a broad choice of low-carbon solutions, we can help our customers achieve their decarbonisation ambitions, as well as support energy security during this transition.

We are determined to provide our customers with lower-carbon transport options. And that means growing our production capacity by transforming our existing Energy and Chemicals Parks, building new low-carbon fuels facilities, forming strategic partnerships with cutting-edge technology companies, and working to develop new technology and optimise our operations.

Our ability to integrate technologies, like green hydrogen produced from renewable power or carbon capture and storage (CCS), into our production processes at a commercial scale allows us to further reduce the carbon intensity of our products.

Shell鈥檚 hydroprocessed esters and fatty acids (HEFA) and co-processing technology converts crop oils, such as rapeseed oil, animal fats and waste feedstocks (e.g. used cooking oil), into a range of LCF, including renewable diesel and SAF. The carbon intensity of the product depends on the feedstock used. Producing biofuels from waste feedstocks is generally more sustainable than using food or energy crops, since the feedstocks do not use any land, and can provide a complementary solution for existing problems such as landfill. Integrating green hydrogen or carbon capture and storage into the production process can reduce the amount of carbon in the final fuel even further.

Shell is working to produce low-carbon synthetic fuels derived from renewable feedstocks like biomass, RNG or a combination of water, renewable power and CO₂. These projects pull together a variety of technologies and are a promising option for hard to abate sectors like aviation.

The process builds on proprietary Fischer-Tropsch technology which we have successfully deployed at scale at Pearl GTL in Qatar, the world's largest gas to liquids plant. This facility turns natural gas into a variety of products including cleaner burning fuels, chemicals and lubricants.

RNG, also known as biomethane, is gas derived from the processing of organic waste, such as food waste, agricultural residues or manure, under a controlled environment, often referred to as anaerobic digestion, until it is fully interchangeable with conventional natural gas.

The use of RNG in natural gas-fuelled vehicles, either as renewable compressed natural gas (R-CNG) or liquefied renewable natural gas (bio-LNG), offers customers already using these vehicles an attractive alternative for lowering their carbon footprint and meeting their sustainability goals. In Europe, Shell BioLNG only comes from biomethane, also known as renewable natural gas (RNG), from 100% renewable feedstocks following the EUs guidelines (REDII).

Ensuring our operations do not lead to deforestation is core to our business principles. This means working with our supply chain to prevent deforestation, protect biodiversity, improve traceability, and guard against land being used to grow energy crops which should be supporting the growing demand for food.

We fully support the adoption of international sustainability standards for agricultural practices, and work with the Round Table on Responsible Soy, the Roundtable for Sustainable Palm Oil, Bonsucro, the Roundtable for Sustainable Biomaterials, and the International Sustainability and Carbon Certification for feedstocks.

All of our purchased feedstock that are considered to be high risk from a human rights, biodiversity, or release of carbon stock perspective are certified as sustainable by credible sustainability initiatives.

Read our purchasing policy here: purchasing-policy-statement-sustainable-sourcing-of-biocomponents (PDF)

The carbon intensity of our products depends on the feedstocks chosen and the process and technologies we use. New technologies are enabling our progression from crops to more sustainable alternative feedstocks, such as agricultural waste, inedible oils or crops (cellulosic biomass) and manure. This improves the sustainability of our products, and it is our intention to transition towards wastes as our primary feedstocks in the future.

Producing LCF from waste feedstocks is generally more sustainable than using food or energy crops, however the issues surrounding waste-based feedstocks can be wide-ranging and context specific. We work on an ongoing basis to understand the sustainability issues associated with each project on a case-by-case basis, and work very closely with our farmers and suppliers to share best practices and raise sustainability standards across the sector.