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Climate Change definition

What does Climate Change mean? In legal practice, climate change describes long-term shifts in the Earth’s climate that inform environmental regulation, planning and EIA, governance and disclosure (ESG/TCFD), finance and litigation. Across the UK and Ireland it is generally a descriptive term rather than one exhaustively defined in statute or case law; climate legislation (for example, the Climate Change Act 2008 and analogous Acts in Scotland, Northern Ireland and Ireland) addresses related concepts such as greenhouse gas emissions, mitigation, adaptation and net zero targets, and instruments adopt their own definitions (for example, the UNFCCC’s focus on anthropogenic change). The term refers to identifiable, persistent changes (typically...

UKCS offshore petroleum licensing regime: NSTA powers, licence types, application and transfer procedures, levies, environmental assessments and net zero reforms

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Oil & Gas—UKCS licensing regime

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Up to 2016, oversight of the UK’s oil and gas resources chiefly sat with the Department of Energy and Climate Change (DECC), acting for the Secretary of State. Following Sir Ian Wood’s review of UK Continental Shelf (UKCS) oil and gas recovery (the Wood Review), government created an independent regulator—now the North Sea Transition Authority (NSTA)—to assume DECC’s licensing and regulatory duties in respect of all oil and gas exploration and production activities on the UKCS. This restructuring transferred responsibility for those matters from DECC to the new body. Until 21 March 2022 the NSTA operated under the name Oil and Gas Authority (OGA), which remains the company’s formal legal name and continues to appear in some legislation. The NSTA began taking on these roles from DECC on 1 April 2015, at first as an executive agency within DECC. The Energy Act 2016 subsequently established the NSTA as a fully independent regulator, constituted as an independent Government company, and amended the Petroleum Act 1998 (PA 1998) (the Petroleum Act) and associated legislation so that various functions and powers, previously exercised by the Secretary of State, were formally vested in the NSTA...

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