EL GAS NATURAL LICUADO (GNL) NO ES "VERDE

07.04.2025

⬆️ Fossil fuel and shipping lobbyists have turned the IMO MEPC into a puppet show by claiming LNG is a green fuel. LNG is a fossil fuel that leaks deadly methane all along its supply chain. It is causing premature deaths wherever it’s produced and it is warming the planet at an alarming rate.

GNL MARINO is a lobbying platform created to convince everyone that LNG will help shipping to transition to a greener future. But this is lie.

Recent research has exposed the lies of industrial lobbying platforms like MAR/GNL. La investigación revisada por expertos revela que el GNL extraído y exportado desde Estados Unidos es 33% más contaminante que el carbón. A lo largo del proceso de extracción y suministro de GNL se producen fugas de metano que causan problemas de salud y la destrucción de zonas y comunidades costeras dondequiera que aparezca una planta de GNL. Estas mismas fugas continúan a bordo Buques propulsados por GNLcontribuyendo a acelerar el colapso climático. Para encubrir esta verdad incómoda, la industria pregona biometano y e-metano products that are only 6% of the EU market and even less worldwide (and both still leak methane throughout their supply chains). The industrial scale of LNG greenwashing has converted the UN IMO MEPC into a puppet for the fossil fuel industry.

⬆️ Bilitaki Lovo, representative of the Micronesia Center for Sustainable Transport explains how shipping pollution affects the lives of Pacific Islanders, pollution which won’t be helped by a transition to LNG.

THE SUCCESS OF LNG GREENWASHING
GNL MARINO has been very successful, so successful that companies like Maersk, Royal Caribbeany MSC han sido promoting their LNG ships as ‘green’ and selling this lie to the general public. What’s more the IMO is convinced by this lie and is doing nothing to stop LNG becoming the fossil fuel of choice for shipping – in the EU alone the consumption of LNG by ships has doubled from 2.2 million tonnes (Mt) in 2018 to 4.4 Mt in 2022. Methane emissions have more than doubled between 2018 and 2023 in the EU, making up 26% of the transport sector’s total methane emissions in 2022—a surge largely attributed to the growing use of LNG as a marine fuel, according to an EMSA report.

El gaslighting es una forma de manipulación psicológica utilizada para hacerte dudar de tus propias percepciones y cordura, a menudo distorsionando los hechos o la realidad. Los partidarios del GNL emplean tácticas de gaslighting, como la financiación de investigaciones y la cita selectiva de estudios que apoyan su narrativa. mientras desacredita a los investigadores que destacan los riesgos del GNL. También están socavando las voces disidentes de la comunidad y los líderes de opinión tachándolos de "alarmistas" u "obstruccionistas".

Enterprises such as these, engaging in gaslighting while making sustainability claims, may be violating their legal responsibilities to shareholders and risk litigation if such material risks, including the litigation risk, are not properly reflected in their audited accounts. Likewise, credit rating agencies which fail to detect this greenwash are also failing to give accurate sustainability readouts to their subscribers in the financial sector, risking their own credibility and business models.

Not to mention any failure of ethical responsibilities to wider stakeholders to avoid collapsing climate, nature and society by means of fugitive methane and fossil carbon emissions that result from LNG. Far from clean, LNG is one of the dirtiest fuels there is. Touting it as a clean fuel is a technological lie. Using it in shipping is a monumental step backwards.

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