LNG: the green washing pill shipping wants you to swallow?

That’s the view of the authors of this briefing paper. The shipping industry (and fossil fuel industry) is keen to put forward LNG as the ideal candidate to clean up shipping’s emissions problem. But the scientists seem to have a very different view on the issue …. Shipping companies that use gas instead of traditional fuels want the public and policy makers to believe that LNG is the “best option available today”. LNG is advertised as “a fuel for the future” , a “transitional fuel” , or as “paving the way for the uptake of sustainable non fossil fuels”. Science, […]