It would be able to produce 500m barrels, exceeding our carbon budgets for the oil and gas industry. It will also make the UK poorer
As the chair of Mission Zero, the independent review of net zero for the government, I have met countless champions of innovation, and witnessed ingenuity and unwavering ambition to drive forward net zero in the UK.
The imperative to reduce carbon across the economy has never been stronger. It is therefore concerning that, at a time when the UK should be embracing a renewable future, an application has been submitted by the Norwegian state-owned oil company Equinor to open the UK’s largest undeveloped oilfield – Rosebank, in the North Sea.
