UK move by PM Johnson to end fossil fuel export credits will hit poorest nations and future LNG projects
UK Prime Minister Boris Johnson has made his nation the first in the Group of 20 of the world’s most advanced economies to end all overseas oil and gas export credits, the downside of which is depriving poorer African and Asian nations of the fruits of fossil fuel revenues from development projects that many Western countries and powers like Russia and China have enjoyed to the full for many years.
Australia's Woodside welcomes greenhouse-gas rules reversal by state that caused instability
Woodside, the Australian LNG producer, has welcomed a decision by the Western Australian state government to withdraw its greenhouse-gas guidelines that caused consternation in the energy industry as Australian activists seek reduction levels almost double those agreed at the 2015 Paris climate-change conference.
LNG and pipeline gas users like UK and Mexico had drops in energy-linked CO2 amid global rise
Natural gas using nations and big pipeline and liquefied natural gas importers like the UK, Mexico and Japan were singled out by the International Energy Agency as countries that experienced drops in energy-related, carbon-dioxide emissions in 2017 as the global CO2 total rose.
