Wireline Magazine Issue 51 - Summer 2021

strategies to be published before the Parliamentary recess. Governments across the UK have put tackling climate change at the heart of their political agenda and that shone through during the election campaigns. Net Zero was a concept that many people would not have touched only a few years ago – now it is in nearly every manifesto. Your role takes in stakeholder relationships locally, but also needs an awareness of the international dynamic – what should be watching out for this year on the global scale? This is a global industry and climate change is a global emergency. We work with national oil industry associations (NOIAs), the IOGP and individual members and they’re all very interested in theNorth Sea Transition Deal, which is the first time any G7 country has worked with industry in a partnership to help it transition to net zero fairly and at pace. We think we can be held up by the government as a demonstration of climate leadership, and we think that’s a really positive way to approach an international climate change conference that just so happens to be held in the UK.

"Net Zero was a concept that many people would not have touched only a few years ago – now it is in nearly every manifesto."

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