Despite Covid-19, decarbonisation remains the biggest challenge

摘要

It's hard to imagine a more serious challenge to the offshore oil and gas industry, or for that matter the world at large, than the current pandemic sweeping the globe. Covid-19 has extracted a huge human and economic toll. But while the world grapples with the coronavirus, lurking in the shadows is an even bigger menace: climate change. Of course, climate change never left. Its signs are with us every day; it's behind the massive wildfires on the US west coast, accessibility of the Northern Shipping Route and the Siberian heatwave where temperatures reached 38°C in a Russian town - the highest temperature ever recorded north of the Arctic circle.