How LNG interests are seeking to disrupt global talks on decarbonising shipping

Observers say pressure on IMO negotiations appears to be linked to countries that have invested heavily in gas About a fifth of the world’s oil and liquefied natural gas (LNG) passed through the strait of Hormuz, a strip of sea less than 30 miles wide at its narrowest point, before it was in effect closed by the US-Israeli attack on Iran, which sent the price of oil soaring and left an estimated 20,000 seafarers on 2,000 vessels stranded. Their plight has shone a spotlight on the complex and ...

By Fiona Harvey Environment editor