Arctic oil is "undrillable" - warned by UN's former climate chief

18/05/2018

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Christiana Figueres, who brought together the landmark Paris deal in 2015 , told Reuters that "The Arctic has been rendered undrillable... The stakes are visibly higher than they were just a few years ago". She urged governments to halt oil exploration in the Arctic, saying drilling was not economical and warming threatened the environmentally fragile region.


Association 3 Herrisons hopes that any development plan would take into consideration the principle of planetary boundary and all three pillars of sustainable development.

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