😡 🇬🇧 Seriously - what the hell are we doing? 🇬🇧 😡

• Rishi Sunak (UK's Prime Minister) says approving more oil and gas licences is "entirely consistent" with reaching net zero by 2050.

• Sunak says even when net zero is reached, a quarter of UK energy needs will come from oil and gas.

• At least 100 new production licences will be issued in the next round this autumn. This is the same country that hosted COP two years ago.

The UK is - to me at least - a leader for carbon dioxide removal (#CDR) globally (see a spotlight I wrote on it here). Just recently, it paved the way for CDR to be included in its compliance market (#UKETS). But it is also going down a dangerous road focused on ramping up fossil fuel use and using point-source carbon capture and storage (#CCS), and to a certain extent CDR, to pretend that it is on a viable path to net-zero...

Not ok, it's 2023 for Christ's sake! We need to stop exploring and tapping new oil and gas fields - now! Yes to deploying CCS. And - of course - yes to more CDR. But no to using that to cover for continued fossil fuel exploration and use!

Link to BBC article here.