The emissions targets currently set under the North Sea Transition Deal are not stretching enough. The Climate Change Committee suggests that it is feasible and necessary for oil and gas production emissions to be reduced by 68% by 2030. We agree. The oil and gas industry has been aware of the contribution of its activities to man-made climate change since the 1990s, or earlier. A responsible industry should have been working to clean up its operations with far greater urgency than this times...

The emissions targets currently set under the North Sea Transition Deal are not stretching enough. The Climate Change Committee suggests that it is feasible and necessary for oil and gas production emissions to be reduced by 68% by 2030. We agree. The oil and gas industry has been aware of the contribution of its activities to man-made climate change since the 1990s, or earlier. A responsible industry should have been working to clean up its operations with far greater urgency than this timescale suggests. The Government needs to push the industry to go further and faster than its current approach. Challenging targets for the industry to unde Type: recommendation | Number: 33 | Paragraph: 192 | Response status: not_addressed Government response: 77. The Government’s view is that the decarbonisation targets in the North Sea Transition Deal to reduce emissions from operations to 50% of 2018 levels by 2030 are sufficiently ambitious and will help significantly to reduce emissions, ultim