Philip Dunne asks the President of COP26 if the extraction of fossil fuels from new oil and gas fields is consistent with meeting our climate change commitments during the transition.

Philip Dunne (Ludlow) (Con)

Is extraction of fossil fuels from new oil and gas fields consistent with meeting our climate change commitments during the transition?

Alok Sharma (The COP26 President)

As I have said, we want to see a managed transition. That is not going to happen overnight. My right hon. Friend will also know that we have set out in our domestic energy security strategy that future licensing rounds will have to be compatible with the climate compatibility checkpoint, which will be set out shortly.

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