In the last few years, a significant number of international public investments have been channelled towards expanding large-scale gas infrastructures in low-and middle-income countries.
This is, in part, because many governments and fossil fuel companies are portraying gas as a transition solution that can resolve the climate crisis and, at the same time, address energy poverty, meet rising energy demands and diversify the national economy by exporting gas abroad.
However, such an approach disregards the weight of evidence showing that reliance on gas will not only fail to solve the climate crisis but create additional problems – for the environment and for those countries and local communities who would host the gas infrastructure.
This report explores some of the claims about using gas as a transition fuel, shows why those claims are untrue, particularly for people living in poverty, and explains why renewable energies are a better development and climate solution for both the climate and local communities.
