Natural Gas
Introduction
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The Group of Experts on Gas helps UNECE member States deliver on key political commitments, such as the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development and the Paris Agreement on climate change.
The priorities for 2020-21 cycle are:
- Role of gas in attaining Sustainable Development Goals
- Dissemination of Best Practice Guidance for Methane Management in the Oil and Gas Sector
- Renewable energy and gas: synergies and low-carbon gases (biogas, biomethane and hydrogen)
- Gas and gas infrastructure as the backbone of a low-carbon electricity and energy system
- Impact of gas on improving urban air quality
- Use of gas in transportation – challenges and opportunities
- Promoting sustainable and clean production, distribution, and consumption of gas and LNG in the ECE region
In focus
7th session Group of Experts on Gas
26-27 March 2020, 10.00 AM, Palais des Nations, Geneva
The 7th session will explore how the Group has delivered on its core mandate: the enabling role of gas in achieving the United Nations Sustainable Development Goals. In addition, the session will:
- Present best practices in measuring and reducing methane emissions from the gas sector
- Explore synergies between gas and renewable energy and the role of decarbonized gases in it
- Propose how the gas infrastructure could enable the transition to a low-emission economy
- Discuss several case studies on the impact of gas on improving urban air quality
- Analyze opportunities for the use of compressed and liquefied natural gas in transport
The 7th session is held as a part of Global Methane Forum 2020 that will on 23, 24 and 25 March feature the annual session of the Group of Experts on Coal Mine Methane and meetings of the Steering Committee and sectoral subcommittees of the Global Methane Initiative.
News
Highlights
European Gas Market Developments:Assessment of Market Trends in Liquefied Natural Gas
Survey on Methane Management The UNECE Secretariat in consultation with the secretariats of the International Gas Union, the World Coal Association and the World Petroleum Council and other industry experts, has prepared a survey of how methane monitoring is done currently.
Managing methane emissions from energy-related extractive activities is a win-win for delivering on the global promises on climate change and sustainable development: this was the key message delivered by UNECE Executive Secretary Christian Friis Bach in his keynote address to the Global Methane Forum in Washington D.C. on 30 March 2016. Read more
UNECE’s Scott Foster: Promoting sustainable energy developments Gastech News at the European Autumn Gas Conference, Geneva, 7 March 2016.
Natural gas vehicles can NOx your SOx off, 05 February 2015
