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“It hasn’t been scientists — it certainly hasn’t been Western scientists — that have been calling for this. It’s been vulnerable nations around the globe that said this is an effort we need for our very survival.” - Carl-Friedrich Schleussner, highlighting the importance of keeping the interests of the world’s most vulnerable places at the heart of climate negotiations.

Using research from the Climate action tracker and quotes from Bill Hare, this article calls attention to the increase in new Liquid Natural Gas projects being built in response to the energy crisis.

"We’re at that stage of history now where everyone has to reduce emissions. And the implications of John Kerry’s proposal is that companies would not actually have to reduce emissions if they buy offsets." - Bill Hare voices concern against the US's proposed Energy Transition Accelerator

Planning and build-up of liquified and other natural gas — due to an energy crisis triggered by Russian’s invasion of Ukraine — would add 2 billion tons of carbon dioxide equivalent (1.9 billion metric tons) a year to the air by 2030, according to a report released by Climate Action Tracker.

"We're witnessing a major push for expanded fossil gas LNG production and import capacity across the world – in Europe, Africa, North America, Asia and Australia – which could cause global emissions to breach dangerous levels," - Bill Hare

“If fossil fuel companies think that they can expand production under a net zero target, they need to think again.”- Bill Hare

India invests in renewable energy, but still heavily relies on coal.

“Our current levels of global warming at 1.1 degrees Celsius (2 degrees Fahrenheit) have already caused dangerous and widespread losses and damages to nature and to billions of people... Losses and damages are unavoidable and unequally distributed” with poorer nations, the elderly, the poor and vulnerable hit harder. - Climate Analytics scientist Adelle Thomas

India could help limit global temperature rises to 1.5C - but only if its emissions peak as soon as possible and if by 2030 they have dropped by 16% from their 2005 levels. - Nandini Das, a climate and energy economist at Climate Analytics

At COP 26, the Vietnamese government promised to end the construction of new coal plants and phase out the dirtiest of those already running. However, as Dr. Nandini Das of Climate Analytics points out, "this is not actually what Vietnam is doing at a national level", since new policies have yet to be implemented.