Improving outcomes for future generations in petroleum licensing regimes – an assessment of the United Kingdom's regime: Part 2 – assessment of the UK regime

Abstract

Part 2 of this article assesses the United Kingdom's offshore petroleum licensing regime for its treatment of the interests of future generations using the methodology developed in Part 1. The assessment is a functional assessment across nine areas: four environmental areas (ecosystems necessary for human life, other ecosystems, cultural heritage and amenity values and restoration of ecosystem damage) and five non-environmental areas (technology, risk management, planning and strategy, resource management and limits on development and production).