At Climate Week NYC, World Leaders Reverse Course On Natural Gas
After years of sidelining gas, global policymakers now see it as essential for reliable energy and rising electricity demands.
by Nicole Jacobs September 26, 2025, 9:56 AM
Climate Week NYC 2025
World leaders are shifting their stance on the importance of natural gas, and policymakers’ change has never been clearer than at this week’s Climate Week conversations in New York City. [emphasis, links added]
Multilateral organizations have been among the last to reconsider their stance on natural gas.
But as Semafor reports:
“Anna Bjerde, managing director of operations at the World Bank, told a small group of reporters that the lender is agnostic about which technologies it helps finance to improve access to electricity around Africa.
“The main focus of that work has been on solar, she said, but ‘gas has to be discussed and pursued’ for providing baseload power. ‘We should be leaning in to help countries develop gas.’” (emphasis added)
https://climatechangedispatch.com/climate-week-nyc-natural-gas-reversal/
