Nations lucky enough to have oil, gas, coal are continuing to develop their fields and selling their produce. The CO2 density is as a result (mainly because of this?) still rising. A debate has started in Norway about the dilemmas involved: Continuing the extraction will give money, but also more CO2.
To achieve sustainability something has to give. Could a start be to drill the oilfields, use the gas which is environmentally better than oil and leave the oil where it is? The oil companies surely will not like this, but the state will have good ecological conscience and a good name in the world. There has to be a sound combination of environmental, economic, political thinking to find a way out of this dilemma.
The debate has just started and may become an international one. Will other nations follow?