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The Guardian - UK
The Guardian - UK
Environment
Fiona Harvey Environment editor

Tory former net zero tsar calls for halt to Rosebank North Sea oil project

Chris Skidmore led the review of the UK’s climate goals.
Chris Skidmore led the review of the UK’s climate goals. Photograph: Joe Giddens/PA Media

The government’s former “net zero tsar” has urged ministers to halt the development of the Rosebank oilfield in the North Sea, or risk destroying the UK’s credibility on the climate crisis.

Chris Skidmore, the influential Conservative MP who led the review of the UK’s climate goals, writes in the Guardian on Tuesday of his concern that the development could derail net zero.

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