Alarming climate report touches a raw nerve on LNG use

Container carriers doubled the number of LNG-powered vessels in the first six months of the year despite global warnings on rising methane pollution, one source of which is LNG. Recently, the IPPC report spotlighted methane as a serious climate threat.
CMA CGM vessel Jacques Saade. | Photo: PR/CMA CGM
CMA CGM vessel Jacques Saade. | Photo: PR/CMA CGM
by jens thomsen, shippingwatch

Methane gas emissions pose the most serious threat to the climate after carbon emissions, according to a new report from the UN Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC), which touches a raw nerve on the use of LNG in shipping.

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