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Transcripts For BBCNEWS Verified 20240704

July saw the world heating up. Now political debates around energy and Climate Change also hotting up too. The government has said it will back hundreds of new licences for oil and Gas Production sites like this in the north sea. It has also confirmed it will support two new Carbon Capture and storage projects in northeast scotland and the humber. These would capture Carbon Dioxide where fossil fuels are burned and pipe it under the sea to store it. Climate campaigners fear it is a tactic to keep the Fossil Fuel Industry in business. The Prime Minister on a visit to aberdeenshire argued todays announcements would help the uk reach its net zero target by 2050 while still backing new oil and gas. Even in 2050, when we are at net zero, it is forecast that around a quarter of our energy needs will still come from oil and gas. Thats why technologies like Carbon Capture and storage are important. But what is important is that we get the oil and gas in the best possible way, and that means getting it from here at home. The conservatives have been keen to draw a Dividing Line with the labour party. Labour say it wouldnt back a new oil and gas licences, arguing they would be bad for the climate, not cut bills or create long term jobs, and would instead focus on investing in renewable alternatives. Quite frankly, i am astonished that rishi sunak is doubling down on his failing and weak policy on Climate Action. Businesses and individuals and families have suffered 13 years of failing tory energy policy. That has left us the worst hit of any Western European country during this energy crisis. The snp said it is important to keep the oil and gas workforce in scotland employed but have called for a Just Transition towards greenerjobs. This is a nuanced discussion, it needs a grown up approach, not the drill, baby, drill approach the westminster government is taking at this point in time, which ignores the reality of Energy Security in the years to come and lack of investment they are putting into renewables, but also ignores the reality of the Climate Crisis that we face. The Prime Minister faces tensions in his own party too, with some tory mps calling on the Prime Minister to water down the net zero target and others accusing him of being on the wrong side of history by backing more oil and gas. Dividing lines that are only set to grow as the next election nears. Ione wells, bbc news. So, would those Carbon Capture projects announced by the government be enough to offset the new push to drill more oil and gas . Heres our climate editorjustin rowlatt. Powering up britain, from britain is the Prime Ministers slogan. He says he wants to max out oil and Gas Production from uk reserves. Many Climate Scientists and environmentalists say the Carbon Dioxide emissions from these new projects will bust through the uks climate targets. So, will the Carbon Capture and storage projects he has announced today offset the emissions . Carbon capture and storage plants are designed to trap that planet warming c02 or take it directly from the atmosphere and store it underground. Take this gas fired power station, for example. As the natural gas is burned to generate electricity, the Carbon Dioxide is separated out. Its pumped underground to be stored in empty gas and oil reservoirs. The government has announced investments in a plant at st fergus on the north east coast of scotland and another in the humber. It has already announced plans for two other such plants. Government advisors say this technology is vital to meet net zero climate targets. Most sectors we can get to zero emissions, but theres a few where we still expect to have emissions in the future, so think of the steel sector, for example, or the cement sector, possibly aviation, even farming, so emissions continuing, actually, past 2050 and beyond. So we need Carbon Capture to reduce emissions to zero in those sectors, or close to zero, and actually to remove Greenhouse Gas emissions from the atmosphere and store those away too. We also need that Carbon Capture technology. Some environmentalists and climate Scientists Say Carbon Capture and storage is a dangerous distraction that could give polluters a licence to carry on polluting. And the cash the government is announcing is to try and kick start a new industry. It will be many years before it will be capable of trapping the millions of tonnes of c02 these new Oil And Gas Fields will produce. And there is another issue the uks ability to lead on the climate. Why would other countries listen if the uk urges them to scale back oil and Gas Production when it is chasing down its last reserves of oil and gas . Profjim skea is the chair in Sustainable Energy at Imperial College londons centre for environmental policy and the co chair of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate ChangeS Working Group iii. Thank you for being here on bbc news. What do you regard as your biggest challenge as you take the helm at ipcc . I biggest challenge as you take the helm at ipcc . Helm at ipcc . I think one of our bi est helm at ipcc . I think one of our Biggest Challenges helm at ipcc . I think one of our Biggest Challenges is helm at ipcc . I think one of our Biggest Challenges is sitting helm at ipcc . I think one of our Biggest Challenges is sitting in l Biggest Challenges is sitting in with the Decision Making cycle in the climate convention. We are just finishing the first global stock tick of the Paris Agreement this year and another one in five years time. The big challenge is to get our reports out and get findings that would actually inform the Decision Making process. That is what is foremost in my mind at the moment. , moment. Informing the decisionmaking moment. Informing the l decisionmaking process moment. Informing the decisionmaking process is the moment. Informing the decisionmaking process is the whole Decision Making process is the whole point of the organisation, to distil the best science to this side global policy. It is the basic problem that we all know the science, we just are not taken the action required . Lets not taken the action required . Lets eat there are not taken the action required . Lets eat there are multiple not taken the action required . Let� s eat there are multiple questions associated with Climate Change we have entered the existential question. Human beings are causing the Climate Change we see at the moment. There is more work to be done on the specific Climate Action that might follow that conclusion. What kind of actions can we take to reduce emissions . What actions can we take to adapt to Climate Change . There is much work to be done on Physical Sciences because we can come up with big pictures on Global Warming but what happens to the climate at regional or local levels . Theres more work to be done in these areas. So, the signs cannot sleep and we have much work to do. We have seen throughout this we are, extreme weather across the planet. Jewell warned last year it was now or never to limit global heating to 1. 5 celsius that threshold above industrial levels. We are on course to cross that in addicted our so, arent we . We to cross that in addicted our so, arent we . To cross that in addicted our so, arent we . ~. ,. ,. , ~ arent we . We are on a knife edge with the 15 arent we . We are on a knife edge with the 1. 5 degrees arent we . We are on a knife edge with the 1. 5 Degrees Warming. Arent we . We are on a knife edge with the 1. 5 Degrees Warming. Our with the 1. 5 Degrees Warming. 0ur Colleagues working in the physical Sciences Tell Us we will reach 1. 5 Degrees Warming around 2030 or the early 20 30s, even in the most Ambition Scenarios where we cut emissions. In these ambitious scenarios, the temperature could come down at again a bit after that so it might graze or go over 1. 5 degrees and then go down again. One thing, temperatures can only come down again if we remove Carbon Dioxide from the atmosphere. So the question of some kind of Carbon Capture techniques or Carbon Dioxide removal have to be an important part of the picture. fin removal have to be an important part of the picture of the picture. On that point, how much can carbon of the picture. On that point, how much can Carbon Captured of the picture. On that point, how much can Carbon Captured due of the picture. On that point, how much can Carbon Captured due to | much can Carbon Captured due to mitigate what we are seeing . Is it central Going Forward or is a and sideshow . It central Going Forward or is a and sideshow . Central Going Forward or is a and sideshow . ,. , sideshow . It is somewhere in the middle. It has sideshow . It is somewhere in the middle. It has a sideshow . It is somewhere in the middle. It has a role sideshow . It is somewhere in the middle. It has a role to sideshow . It is somewhere in the middle. It has a role to Play Sideshow . It is somewhere in the middle. It has a role to play but l sideshow . It is somewhere in the j middle. It has a role to play but it is not the biggest part of the solution. We were very clear in our last report that gets in control of Global Warming and the Energy Sector involved a substantial reduction in fossil fuel emissions. That means scaling of Renewable Energy which is the biggest opportunity in the near term but also Carbon Capture storage has a role to play in the overall picture. Especially around gets into the 20 405, the middle of the century, before we phase out or fees down fo55il century, before we phase out or fees down fossil fuels, Carbon Capture storage has a role to play in all of the scenarios we looked at. Nowhere in the list that the scenarios we looked at. Nowhere in the list that you the scenarios we looked at. Nowhere in the list that you mentioned the scenarios we looked at. Nowhere in the list that you mentioned did in the list that you mentioned did you mention more guests, more oil, with new licenses. You mention more guests, more oil, with new licenses. What we said was substantial reductions with new licenses. What we said was substantial reductions in with new licenses. What we said was substantial reductions in fossil substantial reductions in fossil fuels u5e. Given the fact that oil, fuel5 u5e. Given the fact that oil, gas, Coal Re5erve5 do deplete, if you do nothing then production of fossil fuels will you do nothing then production of fossilfuels will go you do nothing then production of fossil fuels will go down. In fact, we did not characterise it in terms of the amount of reserves, we characterise it in the amount of fossil fuels that you burn. If they have not been abated, for example, using Carbon Capture storage. It does give future policymakers a choice as to whether they stick to the paris targets for climate or leave some of that oil and gas in the ground. Leave some of that oil and gas in the ground leave some of that oil and gas in the round. , w ,. , the ground. Does it make sense to ou to the ground. Does it make sense to you to issue the ground. Does it make sense to you to issue hundreds the ground. Does it make sense to you to issue hundreds of the ground. Does it make sense to you to issue hundreds of new you to issue hundreds of new licenses for gas and oil . You will be aware of the debates notjust in the uk, they have been taking place in germany and france, about various policie5 in germany and france, about various policies in a co5t of living cri5i5, people think will not be comfortable, and their ability to force them through. People talk about watering down green policies. Does that make any sort of sense given the crosswords we are at . We are a given the crosswords we are at . Are a Global Organisation so we cant comment on individual countries, but let me put it this way. We identified in our last report that the current emissions that were tied up with existing fo55il that were tied up with existing Fossil Fuel Re5erve5 that were tied up with existing Fossil Fuel Reserves and infrastructure and would exhaust the Carbon Buttocks for budget for 1. 5 Degrees Warming. It would not do it for 2 Degrees Warming, there would still be some space. It is not for p still be some space. It is not for up to answer those questions, it is for the governments. Some reserves will need to stay in the ground if you want to meet 1. 5 degrees, so we did not ask the question should we or should we not be developing new reserves . We focus on reserve all much oil and gas can reserve burn in the future without a base in it . You said ou the future without a base in it . You said you are the future without a base in it . You said you are optimistic when you have seen and watching all the pictures from around the globe, even in recent days and weeks, are you convinced about that . That there is still an avenue to pave the way out of this . ,. , still an avenue to pave the way out of this . ,. , still an avenue to pave the way out ofthis . ,. , of this . Just to say, it this important point, of this . Just to say, it this important point, even of this . Just to say, it this important point, even if. Of this . Just to say, it this | important point, even if we of this . Just to say, it this important point, even if we were to pass 1. 5 Degrees Warming, we shouldnt give up hope because we have still got Mitigation Measures to reduce emissions which are Cost Effective and will bring more benefits in terms of an impasse than the cost than the entailed. In that sense i am optimistic. We have agency over the future as human beings and i think we set that i was in our ipcc report. fit, beings and i think we set that i was in our ipcc report. In our ipcc report. A final brief thou ht, in our ipcc report. A final brief thought. I in our ipcc report. A final brief thought, i know in our ipcc report. A final brief thought, i know you in our ipcc report. A final brief thought, i know you want in our ipcc report. A final brief thought, i know you want to i in our ipcc report. A final brief. Thought, i know you want to dont want to get political in terms of individual countries but with your basic point b gets on with it . Absolutely, if we want to mitigate and adapt to the inevitable Climate Change we will get, we need to get on with it. The world would be a better place for it. On with it. The world would be a better place for it. Thank you for taking time better place for it. Thank you for taking time to better place for it. Thank you for taking time to speak better place for it. Thank you for taking time to speak with better place for it. Thank you for taking time to speak with us better place for it. Thank you for| taking time to speak with us first or. Jim skea. A british pensioner who killed his seriously ill wife in cyprus has walked free from court. David hunter was found guilty of the manslaughter of his wife janice at their home. Mr hunter had told the court, that she had begged him to end her life, because she was in so much pain. 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