Published on April 23rd, 2022 📆 | 4767 Views ⚑
0Kerry warns against natural gas without emission-control technology
U.S. climate envoy John Kerry on Thursday put natural gas on notice, saying the worldâs reliance on the fossil fuel should be limited to potentially a decade, unless its greenhouse gas emissions are fully captured.Â
Though natural gas burns cleaner than coal when used to generate electricity, it should not be part of a long-term climate strategy without emission-control technology, Kerry said in an interview Thursday with Bloomberg Television.
âIf you can capture the emissions â literally, genuinely â then youâre reducing the problem,â said Kerry, the U.S. special presidential envoy for climate. âWe have to put the industry on notice: Youâve got six years, eight years, no more than 10 years or so, within which youâve got to come up with a means by which youâre going to capture, and if youâre not capturing, then we have to deploy alternative sources of energy.â
Kerryâs comments come as the worldâs climate goals are overshadowed by a short-term push to steer natural gas to European countries and help wean them off Russian energy. Inside the U.S., many policy initiatives that are meant to help fulfill the nationâs Paris agreement pledge to halve greenhouse gas emissions by 2030 remain stalled in Congress, months before an election that could cost President Joe Bidenâs Democratic Party control of the House and Senate.
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