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The Guardian - UK
The Guardian - UK
Environment
Toby Helm Political editor

Keir Starmer urged to resist pressure to permit Rosebank North Sea oilfield

Climate activists outside the Scottish Court of Session on the first day of the Rosebank and Jackdaw judicial review hearing, November 2024
Climate activists outside the Scottish Court of Session on the first day of the Rosebank and Jackdaw judicial review hearing, November 2024. Photograph: Murdo MacLeod/The Observer

Keir Starmer will do huge damage to the global fight against climate change if he gives in to political pressure and allows the development of a giant new oilfield in the North Sea, according to an analysis by the country’s leading environmental institute.

Chaired by Nicholas Stern, the Grantham Institute on Climate Change will fire a warning shot to ministers not to give the green light to the Rosebank and Jackdaw fields, after suggestions that the Treasury is now in favour of allowing drilling to maximise economic growth.

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