#StopRosebank.
As my local town breaks into a week of events on climate change, activists up and down the country are demanding the UK does not approve new oil and gas fields. On the table is a huge site in the North Sea, known as Rosebank. With the potential to supply almost 500m barrels of oil and gas, burning Rosebank’s supplies would create more CO 2 than the combined emissions of the world’s 28 lowest-income countries, including Uganda, Ethiopia and Mozambique. Yet, if the world is to have any chance of limiting global temperature rise to 1.5°C above pre-industrial levels, as agreed by our nation’s leaders at the Paris Agreement, there can be no new investment in fossil fuels. Period. It does seem a little strange. If our government is bound by its climate pledge to strive for a 1.5°C limit, and claims to be a climate leader , why are our politicians even considering new fossil fuels? A lot has changed since 2015, as I’m sure you are all too aware of. I doubt you could go a day without s