
No gala for gas: annual jamboree postponed
The European Gas Conference in Vienna has been postponed in anticipation of climate-justice protests.
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Pascoe Sabido is a researcher and campaigner at the lobby watchdog Corporate Europe Observatory. His work focuses on exposing the influence of the fossil-fuel lobby over decision-making in the European Union and the United Nations. He is also part of the climate-justice movement.

The European Gas Conference in Vienna has been postponed in anticipation of climate-justice protests.

The IPCC says the world is in the last-chance saloon. Yet fossil-gas executives eye deals in Vienna.

Pascoe Sabido and Chloé Mikolajczak
The REPowerEU plan to end Europe’s dependence on Russian gas would still leave it in hock to fossil-fuel companies.

Europe’s problem isn’t just dependence on Russian oil and gas. It’s dependence on fossil fuels, period.