It’s absurd for the UK government to declare a climate emergency while pouring vast sums of taxpayer-backed money into fossil fuel expansion. The Environmental Audit Committee is right to call for serious reform of UK Export Finance.
UK
UK oil and gas: climate emergency, jobs and the need for a managed phase-out
Our new report reveals, for the first time, the climate impact of North Sea oil and gas extraction, and shows the way to a job-creating energy transition. To deal with the climate emergency, the UK needs to immediately stop approving new oil and gas drilling and redirect support to clean jobs and renewable energy.
Report: UK oil and gas drilling plans incompatible with responding to climate emergency
The UK’s oil and gas drilling plans are incompatible with responding to the climate emergency, according to ‘Sea Change,’ a new report by Platform, Oil Change International, and Friends of the Earth Scotland, published today.
Sea Change: Climate Emergency, Jobs and Managing the Phase-Out of UK Oil and Gas Extraction
This new report reveals, for the first time, the climate impact of North Sea oil and gas extraction, and shows the way to a job-creating energy transition. To deal with the climate emergency, the UK needs to immediately stop approving new oil and gas drilling and redirect support to clean jobs and renewable energy.
The UK’s net-zero target must address oil and gas extraction too
The elephant in the room of UK climate policy
US Fracked Gas Hits the UK: But At What Cost?
Soon British consumers will be cooking and heating their homes with American fracked gas for the first time.
New UK Oil Drilling Round Could Bust Us Through Climate Limits
Post by Mika Minio-Paluello, first published by Platform The UK government is pushing a massive new offshore drilling programme, that will take the UK beyond its climate limits. Oil companies had until 2pm Wednesday to bid for 1200 blocks covering large swathes of the sea off North-west and North-east Scotland and England. There is no space in the atmosphere for the … Read More
Solidarity with striking North Sea oil workers
Oil Change International in solidarity with striking oil workers in Scotland
UK BUDGET 2016: Oil tax breaks are the wrong course
Response to UK Budget 2016
OIL TAX FACTS: Dispelling North Sea Oil Myths
Dispelling myths about North Sea oil taxes, jobs, profits and climate