USLNG has Lesser Climate Impacts

Which Gas Will Europe Import Now? The Choice Matters to the Climate (RMI)
Sasha Bylsma, et. al. (March 16): A quarter of EU energy comes from natural gas, of which nearly 45% is sourced from Russia. While renewable energy is the ultimate goal, a new RMI analysis shows that gas imports into Europe have very different climate impacts depending on where they come from and how they are transported. As we’ll explore in depth in a forthcoming article, these supply chain emissions can account for a significant portion of the total life-cycle emissions and climate impacts from gas. Beyond pipeline gas from Russia, the EU currently imports one-half of its LNG from the United States (26%) and Qatar (24%).

Which source is better? Russia’s pipelines are both longer and leakier than in the United States and Qatar… [Therefore,] Russian gas to Germany has a climate footprint that is two to three times larger than US and Qatari gas.
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