Offshore Industry: Falkland Islands

(asked on 1st December 2023) - View Source

Question to the Department for Energy Security & Net Zero:

To ask the Secretary of State for Energy Security and Net Zero, if she will make an assessment of the potential impact of extracting (a) oil and (b) gas from around the Falkland Islands on the UK's net zero targets.


Answered by
Amanda Solloway Portrait
Amanda Solloway
Government Whip, Lord Commissioner of HM Treasury
This question was answered on 11th December 2023

The UK’s ratification of the Paris Agreement has not been extended to the Falkland Islands and so its emissions are not within scope of the UK’s net zero by 2050 target.

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