70 Climate Scientists Urge Governments in the UK and Europe to act against Climate Change
the Division's Marta Musso is one of the signatories
In a letter published in the leading UK newspaper The Independent, no less than seventy climate scientists argue that the UK and Europe must take “bold political action” on fossil fuels and rule out new oil and gas investment. Tessa Khan, environmental lawyer and founder of the oil and gas campaign group Uplift, says in the independent that UK prime minsiter Boris Johnson “must listen to the warnings of climate scientists”.
The letter in the Independent was published on October 18. Marta Musso, postdoc at the Division with a focus on development of the European oil industry and relations with producer countries, is one of the seventy leading climate scientists who signed the letter. What they urge the prime minsiter is to:
● Stop investment and licensing for new oil and gas fields;
● End the policy of Maximising Economic Recovery from North Sea oil and gas;
● Introduce ambitious fossil fuel demand management policies to obviate the risk of future oil and gas imports;
● Ensure a managed and just transition away from oil and gas production, redirect investment towards low-carbon industries, and ensure affected workers are able to transfer smoothly into these new sectors.