Dozens of climate protesters disrupted Shell's annual shareholder meeting in London on Tuesday, chanting slogans and holding banners, as Shell chair Andrew Mackenzie was forced to temporarily suspend the event.

Shell is due to ask its shareholders to vote on a resolution supporting its climate strategy and rebuff an environmental resolution from activists, another iteration of which garnered 30 per cent of votes at last year's annual general meeting.

Police arrived at the venue in central London, but allowed protesters to continue their disruption for over an hour after the meeting was supposed to start.

Both Mackenzie and Shell chief executive Ben van Beurden stayed at the podium, watching the protests stone-faced, even as a screen behind them said the meeting was "temporarily paused" and non-protesting shareholders were asked to leave.

After almost two hours, Mackenzie said police had asked all Shell employees, including board members, to leave the venue. Once they had left, the protesters departed voluntarily with police watching. A Shell spokesperson said the shareholder meeting would resume in a different room after a break.

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