Question to the Department for Energy Security & Net Zero:

To ask the Secretary of State for Energy Security and Net Zero, whether he has made representations on the potential impact on global net-zero commitments of the Willow Project in Alaska to his American counterpart.

My Rt. Hon. Friend the Secretary of State is in regular discussion with the US Government on a range of energy and climate change issues, including the importance of accelerating the global clean energy transition. While he has discussed the Willow Project in Alaska with the US Government, decisions on it are for the US authorities alone.

The UK and US are committed to reaching net zero by 2050 and on 17 April, G7 nations underlined mutual global commitments ‘to accelerate the phase-out of unabated fossil fuels so as to achieve net zero in energy systems by 2050 at the latest in line with the trajectories required to limit global average temperatures to 1.5°C above preindustrial levels’.