(CNN) It's not a boast you usually hear about an oil field: Norway says its huge new facility is great for the environment. Its critics, however, see Norway's third-biggest oil field ever as a perfect symbol of the Scandinavian country's climate hypocrisy. "Norway has a schizophrenic relationship with climate and oil and gas," Lars-Henrik Paarup Michelsen, CEO of the Norwegian Climate Foundation think tank, told CNN. Equinor, the Norwegian state company that operates the Johan Sverdrup field, is working hard to highlight the field's efficiency. According to the United Nations' Emission Gap Report, emissions from the oil and gas Norway sold abroad reached roughly 470 million tons in 2017.

Source: CNN January 19, 2020 08:26 UTC