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Windfall tax must change in face of ‘excessive’ oil profits, Alok Sharma says

Exclusive: Outgoing head of climate talks says UK needs to encourage investment in renewables, not fossil fuels

The UK’s windfall tax on oil and gas profits must be changed to raise billions more and to stop companies using loopholes to invest in further fossil fuel extraction, the outgoing president of global climate talks has said.

“These are excessive profits, and they have to be treated in the appropriate way when it comes to taxation,” said Alok Sharma, the president of the Cop26 UN climate summit.

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