Instruct the Oil and Gas Authority to cancel the 32nd Offshore Licensing Round

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What the petition asks

Our planet has a climate emergency. The 2018 report from the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change states the need for radical CO2 emission reductions over the next 11 years. The UK Parliament has declared a climate emergency. The licensing of future fossil fuel extraction cannot be justified.

The 2018 IPCC report states that we must make drastic 45% cuts in global CO2 emissions within 11 years if we are to avoid temperature increase above the critical 1.5 degree level: https://www.ipcc.ch/sr15/
Parliament's CE declaration: https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-politics-48126677 .
The OGA intends to license 768 new blocks for fossil fuel extraction: https://www.ogauthority.co.uk/news-publications/news/2019/oga-launches-32nd-offshore-licensing-round-with-groundbreaking-supporting-datasets/

Timeline

2 Aug 2019	Petition opened for signatures
6 Nov 2019	Closed to new signatures

Key facts

Signatures 280

Status Closed

Opened 2 Aug 2019

Closed 6 Nov 2019

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