Jonathan Gaventa is an energy policy consultant and a senior associate at E3G, a climate think tank. He is based in Maputo, Mozambique.
Policymakers are increasingly adding elaborate caveats to energy transition pledges in an effort to look ambitious on climate action, while refusing to fully engage with the implications of net-zero emissions for natural gas, writes energy analyst Jonathan Gaventa.
Setting out its net-zero emissions pathway today, the International Energy Agency has ended any suggestion gas could be considered a "transition fuel", with big consequences for industry and geopolitics, writes Jonathan Gaventa, an energy policy consultant.
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