For the first time ever, a report, titled, Troubled Waters: How North Sea Countries are Fueling Climate Disaster has developed a set of benchmarks for rating North Sea countries’ oil and gas production policies by their level of alignment with the Paris Agreement.

By assessing the oil and gas policies of all North Sea countries (Norway, the UK, the Netherlands, Germany, and Denmark), we reveal that none are aligned with the Paris Agreement, nor are contributing their fair share towards the global transition off of fossil fuels. The report also reveals that if the five North Sea producers were counted as a single country, they would rank as the seventh-largest oil and gas producer in the world, just behind China. Far from being on track to phase out production in the 2030s, the region could still be extracting significant levels of oil and gas in 2050, particularly in the UK and Norway.

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Troubled Waters: How North Sea Countries Are Fueling Climate Disaster

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