The New York City Council moved to ban natural gas hookups for new buildings this week as part of its plans to decarbonize A large portion of a cities emissions comes from its buildings, so these moves by cities to reduce the natural gas consumption associated with buildings could have a major effect While plenty of cities and industries are planning to move away from natural gas, the transition will take time and natural gas still has a key role to play in powering the world New York is the latest of several American and European cities to announce new gas-use curbing policies, through a ban on natural gas connections to new housing. There has been speculation that governments may start to restrict the residential and commercial use of gas as they aim to achieve net-zero carbon emissions sooner than originally intended. However, few countries have set a clear […]