Climate Change Committee chief executive Chris Stark said the industry and regulator the Oil and Gas Authority (OGA) could do more, sooner to reduce emissions if North Sea production is to continue.
In its advice to government, the UK's Climate Change Committee (CCC) said it supports ‘stringent’ tests on North Sea licensing as part of proposed climate compatibility checkpoints, but stopped short of recommending an end to exploration.
A new report finds that new oil and gas licensing is not compatible with the UK’s climate commitments and targets set out by the Paris Agreement.
North-east Conservative MP David Duguid has thrown his support behind plans to fast-track the approval of six North Sea oilfields.
A leading government advisory body is to publish direction on new oil and gas licensing in the UK.
The Scottish Government has been told the "delivery of rapid emissions reductions cannot wait" if it is to meet legally-binding climate change targets at the end of this decade.
Arguably, much of the animosity directed towards carbon capture and storage (CCS) in recent times has seemed more than a tad harsh.
As many as 10,000 new green industrial jobs could be created by the middle of the decade if carbon capture utilisation and storage is immediately scaled up.