THE Scottish Greens called today for a year of climate action, starting with the rejection of Rosebank oil field project.

Net Zero spokesman Patrick Harvie urged both the Scottish and Westminster governments to reject the plans for further oil and gas extraction from the North Sea, instead committing to reaching their net zero targets.

The Labour government has not ruled out production from the Rosebank oil field, and all new exploration, despite numerous warnings from experts that the cost to our climate would be catastrophic.

Mr Harvie said: “We are trapped in a deepening climate crisis, and drilling for new oil and gas will do nothing but worsen the conditions and put unnecessary pressure on our climate already at breaking point.

“There is no going back and starting again. There is no planet B for us to go and live on.

“People cannot afford the rising costs of energy bills that are being made worse by maintaining a link between the cost of gas and electricity.”

The MSP said there are “better ways” to heat and light homes that will cut bills and “don’t cost the earth, but it can’t happen without investment.”

He said: “It must be the focus and priority of our governments to lead the change instead of pandering to the climate vandals profiteering from their destructive practices.

“Scotland has an abundance of clean, cheap, green, renewable energy sources. We do not need to drain the North Sea of fossil fuels, or keep pumping climate-wrecking pollution into the atmosphere, to keep the lights on, the way we did in the last century.”

Mr Harvie called for “a clean energy revolution, one that puts people and planet at its core.”