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Market cannot deliver just transition, say researchers
RWE's Gwynt y Mor, the world's 2nd largest offshore wind farm located eight miles offshore in Liverpool Bay, off the coast of North Wales, July 26, 2022

ONLY concerted political leadership and not the market can deliver a “just and fair” transition by 2030, researchers said today.

Experts at Robert Gordon University found only 0.3 per cent of the thousands of market-driven scenarios they analysed produced a transition away from fossil fuels that delivered for the 150,000 workers — predominantly in Scotland — reliant on North Sea oil and gas production.

Report author Professor Paul de Leeuw concluded that only political action could “deliver a just and fair transition, maintaining the workforce to 2030 to deliver a long-term net zero future.”

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