[The Guardian] Aberdeen: teetering between its high-carbon past and a green future

Aberdeen: teetering between its high-carbon past and a green future

A city more reliant than most on oil and gas reserves hopes to profit from a shift to net zero

Aberdeen is one of the few cities in the world where your taxi driver is almost guaranteed to know the global market price for oil.

It is the second week of March in the capital of the North Sea oil and gas industry and Aberdonians have witnessed one of the sharpest oil price slumps in a generation. The Granite City is still one week away from a market collapse even deeper than the 2016 price crash.

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