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How the energy crisis is pressuring countries' climate plans – while some race to renewables, others see wealth in natural gas, but drilling benefits may be short-lived

  • Written by Robert Brecha, Professor of Sustainability, University of Dayton
imageA pipeline in Tunisia supplies natural gas from Algeria to Italy. Fethi Belaid/AFP via Getty Images

Russia’s war on Ukraine has cast a shadow over this week’s meetings of world leaders at the G-20 summit in Bali and the United Nations climate change conference in Egypt.

The war has dramatically disrupted energy markets the world over,...

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