The global flurry of legal campaigns against “big oil” has widened, with Royal Dutch Shell being threatened with legal action unless it steps up efforts to comply with the Paris climate agreement.  Friends of the Earth Netherlands...demanded the Anglo-Dutch company revise plans to invest only 5% in sustainable energy and 95% in greenhouse-gas emitting oil and gas.  The environmental group said this business strategy would increase the impact of climate change...It has given Shell eight weeks to shift to a cleaner tack, after which it says it is prepared to invoke international obligations, human rights treaties and laws on hazardous negligence.  Heading the group’s legal team is Roger Cox...“This is the first case we know of in the world that seeks preventive action from a company over climate change,” Cox told the Guardian.  “We are not asking for damages. We want Shell to steer away from its current course and to get in line with the Paris agreement.”...A spokesperson for Shell said the company strongly supported the Paris agreement, “but we believe climate change is a complex societal challenge that should be addressed through sound government policy and cultural change to drive low-carbon choices for businesses and consumers, not by the courts.”...