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Fuel crisis: slash demand in three sectors to protect economies and climate

Global dependence on Russian gas, oil and coal can be cut by 20–60% and greenhouse-gas emissions by 2.9% within one year, with the right policy support.
  1. Felix Creutzig

    1. Felix Creutzig is a group leader at the Mercator Research Institute on Global Commons and Climate Change, and chair of sustainability economics of human settlements at Technical University Berlin, Berlin.

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The war in Ukraine has triggered an energy and resource crisis. Russian exports account for 3.6% of coal, 7.0% of natural gas and 5.8% of oil consumption globally (see Supplementary information). Much of those exports goes to Europe. Russia provides about 40% of the European Union’s gas, nearly 50% of its coal and one-quarter of its oil. Russia is cutting gas exports to countries that will not pay in roubles. Prices are soaring and gas and oil are running short.

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Nature 606, 460-462 (2022)

doi: https://doi.org/10.1038/d41586-022-01616-z

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The author declares no competing interests.

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