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This news article features comments by Professor Lord Nicholas Stern in response to the UK government’s decision to issue new oil and gas licences in the North Sea. Lord Stern is critical of the move, which he says will do next to nothing for security or for world prices and will be detrimental to efforts to tackle climate change.
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