25/05/2020 (Agence Europe) – In a document sent to the European institutions on 22 May, Bulgaria, the Czech Republic, Greece, Hungary, Lithuania, Poland, Romania and Slovakia defended the role of natural gas in achieving climate neutrality by 2050. “When replacing solid fossil fuels, natural gas and other gaseous fuels such as bio-methane and decarbonized gases can reduce emissions [...] with costs not hampering the EU competitiveness”, they say. According to them, natural gas represents “a substantial back-up and balancing source for development of renewable energy and electricity system”. The NGO CAN Europe, on the other hand, considers that investing more in gas infrastructure would be a waste of public money (see EUROPE 12407/21) and that gas is “much less clean than it is often portrayed” because of methane emissions. See the document from the eight countries: https://bit.ly/2LXSLHe (DG)