Energy & Science

North Sea Oil Producers Face Demanding Near-Term Carbon Target

  • U.K.’s net-zero targets may spur limits sooner than expected
  • Companies seeking to show they’re part of the climate solution

     

Photographer: Chris Ratcliffe/Bloomberg
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A group of U.K. North Sea oil and natural gas producers face an ambitious government-mandated target to cut their emissions as soon as 2025 as the nation seeks to make more real its ambition for net-zero fossil fuel pollution by the middle of the century.