Dear Colleagues,

Attainment of the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development and the Paris Agreement on Climate Change requires an unprecedented momentum for a lower carbon economy. The penetration of decarbonized gases as well as natural gas with carbon capture will be crucial to the success of the new energy order. The natural gas industry has already started to embrace the idea of decarbonising or greening natural gas towards a low carbon energy future.

This emerging new energy order will also expand the pillars of the traditional energy security calculus. The transition towards a low carbon energy future will be ensured not only by combining policies and technology, but also by how fast and successfully the gas industry will adapt itself to the new reality across the gas value chain.

This Special Issue aims to contibute to investigating the role of gas and the gas industry in paving the way towards a low carbon energy future, and in attaining sustainable energy security, with a critical lens.

This call for papers seeks high-quality research and review articles to expand the above issues through local, regional and global perspectives.

Issues of interest for this Special Issue include, but are not limited to, the following:

• The key benefits, barriers, uncertainties and challenges for the role of gas in global and regional energy transition;
• The role of renewable gases, such as such as biomethane, bio-LNG and synthetic natural gas, as energy carriers towards a low carbon energy future;
• The conversion of power to gas, the process of converting renewable energy to gaseous energy carriers such as hydrogen or synthetic natural gas;
• The politics of renewable and decarbonised gases;
• Technological improvements and environmental mitigation options such as gas flaring, carbon capture and storage, and fighting fugitive methane emissions;
• Safety and environmental standards/regulations along the gas value chain;
• The role of gas in fuel switching, from coal or oil to natural gas, to reduce CO2 emissions and air pollutants;
• What role will gas play in the global energy transition: the bridge or the destination?
• Innovation and technology for capturing the complementarity of natural gas and renewable energy systems;
• Gas as an enabler for a cleaner transport sector, opportunities for gas in buildings and the industrial sector;
• Gas industry in transtion: challenges and opportunities throughout the entire gas value chain.

Dr. Sohbet Karbuz
Guest Editor

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• natural gas
• LNG
• decarbonised gases
• renewable gases
• sustainable energy security