The licensing test will compare greenhouse gas emissions in the UK sector with other countries.
A slimmed-down climate compatibility checkpoint for new oil and gas development has been branded a sham by environmentalists.
Ministers had been coming under pressure for continuing to support new oil field development while acting as hosts of the UN's COP26 climate change summit in Glasgow. Although energy is reserved to Westminster, the Scottish government has used planning laws to ban fracking in Scotland since 2015. And Freya Aitchison, from Friends of the Earth Scotland, said: "In ploughing forward with this new licensing round, the UK government is effectively denying the reality of the climate emergency with scientists and energy experts clear that there can be no new oil and gas.
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