While the desire to cease trade with Russia could provide a helpful impetus for clean energy development, global leaders also warned that building new infrastructure for the importation of oil and gas could lock in fossil fuel dependence.
All rich countries, which are the primary contributors of carbon emissions, need to rapidly reduce their fossil fuel use if they are to meet their goal of staying below 1.5 degrees Celsius of global warming. The Intergovernmental Panel on Climate ChangeIn the near term, that’s bad news for climate change because Europe is trying to replace Russian gas with gas from other sources. But looking to the future, experts say Europe can actually expedite its transition to clean energy.
The United Kingdom has announced it will end imports of Russian fossil fuels this year. Earlier this month, U.K. Prime Minister Boris Johnson — a conservative whose record on climate change is often criticized by activists —The key question remains how to ensure that replacing Russian gas, which comes through a pipeline, with LNG from other continents is only temporary. Experts say the answer is to avoid building new fossil fuel infrastructure.
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