Drive carbon neutral
Offsetting with the Shell Card and enabling your fleet to drive carbon neutral can play a key role in your low carbon planning, allowing you to offset unavoidable carbon emissions in a simple and cost-effective way.
We understand the many challenges today’s fleets face on the road to a lower carbon future. Whether you’re just starting to consider alternative fuels or already have electric vehicles, your fleet will produce emissions that are just unavoidable. And that’s where our new carbon offsetting service can help.
It's easy; sign-up and your fleet can drive carbon neutral, simply by using the Shell Card. Shell takes care of the rest, offsetting your fleet's unavoidable carbon emissions through the purchase of carbon credits from a portfolio of carefully chosen nature-based projects – such as forest developments or grassland preservation projects – that capture and store carbon from the atmosphere.
How does it work?
You opt-in to offset for carbon emissions from your fleet. Your drivers use the Shell Card to refuel at Shell. 'Tank-to-wheel' charges will be applied to your account
Shell tracks your fleet's overall fuel consumption and calculates the associated 'well-to-wheel' CO₂ emissions
Shell will purchase carbon credits equivalent to the amount of your fleet's carbon emissions to offset them through Shell’s global portfolio of nature-based solutions projects
Shell will issue an annual verified carbon reduction certificate confirming that the fuel has been offset
You don’t even have to change the way you work – Shell automatically calculates your well-to-wheel carbon emissions and offsets these through Shell’s global portfolio of nature-based solutions projects.
Nature-based solutions and Shell
Read the transcript
Read the transcript
Title: Shell Nature-based Solutions main film
Duration: 0:50
Description:
An overview of Shell's Nature-based Solutions, highlighting its role in helping to tackle climate change
[Sounds of nature, including birdsong and gentle breezes, accompany the appearance of a montage of forest images]
Bright, uplifting music begins.
[A forest canopy is further revealed, as the camera rises above it]
On-screen text: Trees are vital in the fight against climate change.
[The camera moves forward over a forest floor, between the trunks of trees]
On-screen text: Shell is harnessing nature.
[We follow a man as he walks through a forest]
On-screen text: Supporting reforestation projects
[Camera gradually drops down through a forest canopy]
On-screen text: Protecting forests under threat
[Cars arrive and depart from a Shell station]
On-screen text: Making it easier for customers to tackle their emissions
[Man looks up at the trees in a forest]
On-screen text: But this is all just one part of the solution.
[Overhead view of car driving along a road bordered by forests and water]
[Hilltop wind turbines turn in the distance, shrouded in layers of cloud]
On-screen text: We aim to be a net-zero emissions energy business by 2050 or sooner, in step with society.
[Camera rotates as it looks down on three people walking amongst rows of solar panels]
On-screen text: So we're also investing in other areas...
[Two customers are seen at a Shell station, refuelling a hydrogen car]
On-screen text: from lower-carbon biofuels and hydrogen
[We see the operation of an EV charging device]
On-screen text: to electric-vehicle charging,
[Aerial shot circling over rows of solar panels, followed by a view towards the horizon featuring numerous wind turbines]
On-screen text: solar and wind power.
[The camera travels forward over the treetops of a forest]
On-screen text: Shell. Powering progress together
[Camera gently moves forward along the floor of a forest]
Shell logo appears onscreen.
[Legal disclaimer text appears on screen]
It is important to note that as of May 5, 2020, Shell’s operating plans and budgets do not reflect Shell’s net-zero Emissions ambition. Shell’s aim is that, in the future, its operating plans and budgets will change to reflect this movement towards its new net-zero emissions ambition. However, these plans and budgets need to be in step with the movement towards a Net Zero Emissions economy within society and among Shell’s customers.
Benefits to your business
There are several advantages to offsetting the CO2 emissions of your fleet with Shell:
- Annually, you will receive carbon reduction certificate
- Your company will demonstrate corporate leadership and strengthen its position
- You can begin, or continue, sustainable business practices
- You can meet the increasing demands of internal and external stakeholders
- Your business can have a positive impact on communities around the world by offsetting through verified projects
Carbon offsetting FAQs
What are nature-based solutions?
What are nature-based solutions?
‘Nature-based solutions’ – also referred to as natural climate solutions – comprise all activities related to the protection or re-development of natural ecosystems such as forests, grasslands, and wetland systems to lower concentrations of greenhouse gases in the atmosphere. This can include avoiding or minimising greenhouse gas emissions, and helping to sequester carbon into so-called ‘carbon sinks’. Each of these activities results in the biological capture and storage of carbon – typically through the process of photosynthesis. Such activities can lead to the marketing, trading and sale of carbon offset credits. They also help, for instance, to reduce soil erosion, protect animal habitats, and create products such as timber and biofuels.
What are carbon credits?
What are carbon credits?
A carbon credit represents the avoidance or removal of 1 tonne of carbon dioxide. These credits are traded among governments and businesses. In order to ensure the quality and integrity of carbon credits, there is a robust programme of third-party standards, verification processes and registries.
What is meant by ‘carbon neutral driving’?
What is meant by ‘carbon neutral driving’?
For customers who fill up with the Shell Card, customers will pay a small fee to offset the emissions of their fleets. Shell will pay to offset carbon emissions generated by the extraction of crude oil and well as the refining and distribution of it. This means all emissions for Shell fuel card users will be offset, enabling fleets to drive carbon neutral.
What is offset?
What is offset?
Shell’s compensation service is for the so-called "tank-to-wheel" emissions, i.e. CO2 emissions generated by the combustion of the fuel in the engines of your fleet. The use of the fuel is responsible for approximately 80% of the "well-to-wheel" CO2 emissions of the fuel (European Commission, JRC). The "well-to-wheel" emission includes all CO2 emissions from the extraction of crude oil to the use of the fuel in your engine. The extraction of crude oil, its refining and its distribution are responsible for the remaining 20% of the emissions.
The publication ‘DEFRA, Greenhouse gas reporting: conversion factors 2019’ is used as the basis for Shell Carbon calculations.
Disclaimer
"Carbon neutral” indicates that Shell has engaged in a transaction where an amount of CO2 equivalent to the CO2e amount associated with the raw material extraction, transport, production, distribution and usage [or end-of-life, if Lubricants or other non-energy product] of the [product] has been avoided as emissions through the protection of natural ecosystems or removed from the atmosphere through a nature-based process. CO2e (CO2 equivalent) means CO2, CH4, N2O.