Britain faces a fossil fuel dilemma: It can burnish its green credentials by halting new oil and gas development in the North Sea, but doing so will leave it more reliant on imported fuel.
How Britain charts a course to achieve net zero emissions by 2050 will be under scrutiny when it hosts the COP26 climate conference in Glasgow, Scotland, starting on Oct. 31.
Navigating that route has already proved challenging.
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