Governments reconcile oil and gas production with climate goals

The research analyzes how Nigeria and Colombia use specific narratives and discursive strategies to justify continued oil and gas expansion while maintaining climate commitments, highlighting the role of power relations in slowing the energy transition.

• Governments in Nigeria and Colombia both utilize narratives that link oil and gas extraction to energy transitions, energy security, and development to justify hydrocarbon expansion.
• Nigeria employs an additional narrative focused on its international positioning, and both countries adapt their narratives based on specific historical and geographical political economies.
• National governments employ several specific discursive strategies to legitimize further oil and gas extraction, including the use of managerial and technocentric language, the naturalization of production, strategic use of scale, and the delegitimization of alternative futures for oil and gas.

APA

Stockholm Environment Institute (2024). Governments reconcile oil and gas production with climate goals. https://www.sei.org/publications/governments-reconcile-oil-gas-production-climate-goals/

Chicago

Stockholm Environment Institute. Governments reconcile oil and gas production with climate goals. 2024. https://www.sei.org/publications/governments-reconcile-oil-gas-production-climate-goals/.

Wikipedia

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BibTeX

@techreport{stockholmenvironmentinstitute2024governments, author = {{Stockholm Environment Institute}}, title = {{Governments reconcile oil and gas production with climate goals}}, institution = {Stockholm Environment Institute}, year = {2024}, month = dec, url = {https://www.sei.org/publications/governments-reconcile-oil-gas-production-climate-goals/}, urldate = {2026-08-17}, note = {Indexed by Climate Insights Directory} }