UK policy choices risk net-zero target, environmental groups warn
Environmental groups told Prime Minister Andy Burnham that the government's recent decisions on North Sea drilling, Heathrow expansion, electric-vehicle targets and heat-pump funding could add 402 million tonnes of CO₂ over 25 years, threatening the UK's carbon budgets, on 27 October. Earlier, the British government approved the Jackdaw gas field in the North Sea, projecting a 6 percent increase in domestic gas output, according to DW. com. U.
S. President Donald Trump praised Prime Minister Burnham for the approval, saying it would make the United Kingdom wealthier, as reported by the BBC. A cabinet split emerged over the Rosebank oil field: Chancellor John Healey backed the project while Energy Secretary Miatta Fahnbulleh was expected to reject it, per The Telegraph, and journalists spent two days aboard the Rosebank FPSO while the decision was pending, BBC noted. The government had been set to decide on the Jackdaw field on 14 October, BBC reported.
