Asserting the climate benefits of the coal-to-gas shift across temporal and spatial scales

Asserting the climate benefits of the coal-to-gas shift across temporal and spatial scales

Asserting the climate benefits of the coal-to-gas shift across temporal and spatial scales, Published online: 22 April 2019; doi:10.1038/s41558-019-0457-1

The benefits of using natural gas as a bridge fuel are often called into question. A coal-to-gas shift in China, Germany, India and the United States is broadly consistent with climate stabilization goals in the Paris Agreement, except when metrics emphasizing very short-term outcomes are used.