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UN set to warn over 'dash for gas'
2014-04-11 01:06:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
BBC: Governments are likely to be warned next week that a "dash for gas" will not solve climate change. The chancellor and prime minister have promoted gas as a clean option for powering the UK. But a draft report for the United Nation's third panel on climate change says gas cannot provide a long-term solution to stabilising climate change. Gas is only worthwhile if it is used to substitute a dirty coal plant - and then only for a short period, it says. Instead the world should be trebling...
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