Egypt is also the likely host of the COP27 climate summit next year. There’s a thin line between using natural gas as a transitional energy carrier, and being locked into gas for a very long time.”Can Egypt avoid locking in natural gas? Egypt’s immediate priority is to address those climate impacts for its rapidly growing population before it ends its reliance on natural gas. In the short term, Egypt is looking at ways to use its natural gas for more than power production. One is a government program that allows car, taxi, and microbus owners to swap old gas-guzzling vehicles for subsidized new models that run on compressed natural gas.

Source: The North Africa Journal November 09, 2021 13:00 UTC