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A business case for green fuels

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With the promise of natural and shale gas for the power sector, the oil-chained transport sector remains climate policymakers' biggest headache. Within transport, the emergence of different types of fuel is itself a big issue, as Sonja van Renssen explains.

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Figure 1: Fuel-cycle greenhouse gas emissions of eight different pathways for the production and delivery of LNG to ships.

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  1. Sonja van Renssen is a freelance climate, energy and environment journalist based in Brussels,

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van Renssen, S. A business case for green fuels. Nature Clim Change 3, 951–952 (2013). https://doi.org/10.1038/nclimate2038

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