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Germany plans to support new gas projects overseas until 2025 in a potential breach of its commitment to end international fossil fuel financing.\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n

The government’s export credit agency has released its draft policy<\/a> for the provision of guarantees in the energy sector in what it described as an attempt to tie them to climate protection targets.<\/p>\n

The guidelines were expected to belatedly align the German agency’s operations with a pledge made at Cop26 in Glasgow to end funding for coal, oil and gas projects overseas by the end of last year.<\/p>\n

Under the proposal, the German government will no longer support coal and oil operations except when needed to decommission infrastructure<\/a> or reduce methane emissions.<\/p>\n

But the inclusion of a series of exceptions for fossil gas has come under heavy criticism.<\/p>\n

‘Anti-science’ policy<\/h3>\n

Adam McGibbon from campaigning group Oil Change International said Germany’s claims to be a climate leader are “laughable” after the release of this new policy.<\/p>\n

\u201cThis policy is anti-science, it runs against everything that the world\u2019s scientists are telling us. No new fossil fuel infrastructure can be built if the world is to meet climate targets”, he added.<\/p>\n

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The agency would continue supporting the development of new gas fields and related transport facilities until 2025 when justified by national security and in compliance with the Paris Agreement targets.<\/p>\n

The\u00a0pledge<\/a>\u00a0to end international finance for fossil fuel allows exceptions in \u201climited and clearly defined circumstances that are consistent with a 1.5C warming limit\u201d. The International Energy Agency\u00a0warned<\/a>\u00a0last year that investment in new coal, oil and gas production was incompatible with limiting global warming to 1.5C.<\/p>\n

There is similarly a “large consensus” among climate scientists that developing any new gas fields is \u201cincompatible\u201d with limiting warming to 1.5C, according to a study<\/a> by the International Institute for Sustainable Development (IISD) reviewing energy pathways.<\/p>\n

Germany, which relied on Russia for a third<\/a> of its gas, has opted for alternatives overseas, even equipping itself with new LNG importing capacity with new floating terminals<\/a>.<\/p>\n

In late 2022, the country even signed a 15-year deal to import gas from the UAE’s North Field, deemed a carbon bomb for its large untapped supplies.<\/p>\n

2025 deadline<\/h3>\n

The German guidelines would also allow for the provision of export guarantees for the maintenance of existing gas extraction and transport projects until 2025 in industrialised nations and until 2029 in developing countries. This would only apply to activities that do not extend the lifetime or the production capacity of the projects.<\/p>\n

The retrofitting of existing gas power plants with carbon capture and storage (CCS) technologies would also be eligible for public financing.<\/p>\n

The German economy ministry said the sector guidelines implemented international commitments and that conditions for gas were very strict and very limited, Reuters reported<\/a>.<\/p>\n

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The policy is expected to come into force towards the end of the year after undergoing a consultation process.<\/p>\n

Export credit agencies, like the German agency, are influential in directing investment towards specific sectors. They do this by offering exporters government-backed loans, guarantees or insurance.<\/p>\n

Thanks to those benefits, companies selling services and goods in countries or industries considered high-risk can offset them.<\/p>\n

Cop26 pledge<\/h3>\n

Germany was among 39 countries and financial institutions that signed a pledge<\/a> at Cop26 in November 2021 to stop public finance for overseas fossil fuel projects by the end of 2022.<\/p>\n

Among the biggest signatories, the United Kingdom, France and Canada have published policies that meet the promise made in Glasgow.<\/p>\n

Italy has already u-turned on its commitment, carving<\/a> out a wide range of exemptions for the continued support of fossil fuel projects on energy security grounds.<\/p>\n

The United States has not yet published its policy. 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