Just 2% of continent’s gas capacity has planned retirement date despite pledges to decarbonise, study shows

Just 2% of continent’s gas capacity has planned retirement date despite pledges to decarbonise, study shows

Europe’s “tone-deaf” expansion of fossil gas is accelerating climate breakdown and increasing reliance on hostile regimes, campaigners have warned.

Just four of Europe’s gas-fired power plants have a retirement plan and new projects will increase the continent’s gas generation capacity by 27%, according to analysis from the campaign group Beyond Fossil Fuels.

It argues that the dash for gas contradicts the International Energy Agency’s recommendation that rich countries decarbonise their electricity grids in the next 10 years to stop the planet from heating 1.5C.

  • tb_@lemmy.worldEnglish
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    8 months ago

    Rollie just did a great video on “natural” gas.

    It’s a bit long, but really informative.

    TL;DW: methane on its own burns a little cleaner than coal, but escaped methane is a lot more harmful than CO2. Given the great amount of unreported leaking at basically any terminal, as well as the various energy costs of shipping it overseas; it may not be so clean after all.