Sky News published this video item, entitled “Should oil and gas exploration be scrapped by 2050?” – below is their description.
One of the EU’s biggest oil and gas producers, Denmark, plans to end all new oil and gas exploration by 2050.
This has also been the focus of Norway’s recent election.
But is there a role for fossil fuels beyond 2050?
Fatima Ibrahim, Co-Founder of Green New Deal UK, says “there needs to be no role for oil and gas beyond 2050”.
Bob Ward, from the Grantham Research Institute, adds that it’s “unfortunate” the UK has not committed to stopping exploration.
Watch the full debate.
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Denmark, officially the Kingdom of Denmark, is a Nordic country in Northern Europe. The capital is Copenhagen. Denmark proper, consists of a peninsula, Jutland, and an archipelago of 443 islands.
The Kingdom of Denmark comprises Denmark proper and the two autonomous territories in the North Atlantic Ocean: the Faroe Islands and Greenland. Home rule was established in the Faroe Islands in 1948; in Greenland home rule was established in 1979 and further autonomy in 2009.
Denmark has highly developed mixed economy. Denmark became a member of the European Economic Community (now the EU) in 1973, but negotiated certain opt-outs; it retains its own currency, the krone. It is among the founding members of NATO, the Nordic Council, the OECD, OSCE, and the United Nations; it is also part of the Schengen Area. Denmark has close linguistic ties to its Scandinavian neighbours.
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