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This resource looks at the role of one of the players in energy security: Opec, and the announcement from the UAE that they will be leaving that and the wider Opec+ group.
There are a number of articles which support this activity, links to which can be found here:
‘The beginning of the end of Opec’: can the oil cartel survive the UAE’s exit?
UAE to leave Opec in blow to oil cartel
UAE’s Opec exit will drive down oil prices in future, warns Moscow
This article underpins many aspects of resource security within the A Level specifications specifically:
AQA
3.2.5.4 Energy security.
Cambridge International
12.1 Sustainable energy supplies Renewable and non-renewable energy resources.
12.2 The management of energy supply.
Edexcel
Topic 6: The Carbon Cycle and Energy Cycle. Enquiry question 2: What are the consequences for people and the environment of our increasing demand for energy?
Edexcel International Advances
Topic B1: Energy Security
Eduqas / (WJEC)
(4) 3.4 Energy Challenges and Dilemmas
