The Scottish Court of Session has ruled that two major North Sea oil and gas fields were approved unlawfully, as their environmental impact assessments did not consider their full lifecycle emissions.

Scotland’s supreme civil court has declared the approval of the UK’s North Sea Rosebank and Jackdaw oil and gas fields unlawful, overturning consent for their development.

Plans to develop the UK's largest untapped oilfield have been frustrated in a major climate court case. A Scottish court ruled the previous Conservative government acted "unlawfully" when it green-lit the offshore Rosebank oilfield and smaller Jackdaw gas project.

A judge has ruled that private interests and climate change considerations should have been considered when the U.K. government approved the Rosebank oilfield.

The development of two major oil and gasfields in the North Sea must be halted after a landmark court case ruled in favour of environmentalists. The Scottish Court of Session in Edinburgh ruled the approval to develop the Rosebank and Jackdaw fields,