Study: Oil and gas exploration booming despite global pact to 'transition away' from fossil fuels

Cecilia Keating
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Study: Oil and gas exploration booming despite global pact to 'transition away' from fossil fuels

UK is among a group of five richer nations which have together issued two-thirds of oil and gas licenses since 2020, according to the IISD

Oil and gas exploration worldwide has surged to the highest level in five years, despite hundreds of nations agreeing to "transition away" from fossil fuels in energy systems at last year's UN Climate...

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