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LATEST NEWS UPDATES | Fact check: Is natural gas just as responsible as coal for global warming, as Union minister claims? -Divyani Dubey

Fact check: Is natural gas just as responsible as coal for global warming, as Union minister claims? -Divyani Dubey

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published Published on Dec 31, 2022   modified Modified on Jan 2, 2023

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In theory, natural gas is 'cleaner' than coal, but while producing the gas a certain amount of methane ( a greenhouse gas) leaks into the atmosphere.

RK Singh, the Union Minister for Power, New and Renewable Energy, said on December 5 that natural gas is just as responsible as coal for global warming, if not more.

“In COP26 they added a line, they wanted to add… phase-out of coal. But thereafter India objected so they added phase-down of coal. …Now that was totally hypocritical and inequitable because coal is not the only fossil fuel which causes global warming. In fact, natural gas is responsible for as much global warming if not more, because of the methane factor,” Singh said at Idea Exchange, an event organised by the Indian Express.

“We use one fossil fuel which we have, we have coal so we use it. [If] somebody has gas, that country uses gas… Now if you want transition you have to phase down all these fossil fuels, so why single out coal?,” the minister added.

Singh’s comments came after the 27th Conference of the Parties (COP27) – the largest international climate conference – held in Sharm el-Sheikh, Egypt from November 6-November 20. India had pushed for a phase-down of all fossil fuels, and not just coal, IndiaSpend reported in November. But all countries did not agree to adding a phase down of all fossil fuels [such as oil and natural gas], and the final plan from COP27 reiterated the agreement at the 26th COP in 2021 on a coal phase-down and a phase-out of inefficient fossil fuel subsidies.

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