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The International Court of Justice (ICJ) has found that States must protect us from the climate emergency. The UK government must now decide whether to follow the advisory opinion (AO) or face significant legal risk.

Donald Trump will arrive in Scotland this week (Friday 25th – Tuesday 29th July) to visit his golf courses and meet with Keir Starmer in Aberdeen. It is anticipated that the US President will use the meeting to criticise UK energy policy and repeat his call to "get rid of the windmills and bring back the oil". This briefing examines claims by Trump (and Nigel Farage’s Reform UK) about the North Sea and outlines why more drilling is not in the UK’s national interest.

The debate over new North Sea drilling has reignited following the government’s introduction of new guidance for assessing proposed oil and gas developments. This briefing looks at the guidance – effectively a new climate test – and its implications for the UK’s largest undeveloped oil field, Rosebank.