Qatar Warns Europe of Gas Shortages in Switch to Renewables

Saad Sherida Al-Kaabi in Doha, Qatar, on May 23.Photographer: Christopher Pike/Bloomberg
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Qatar warned that governments’ energy-transition policies will discourage investment in fossil fuels and lead to scarcities of natural gas in the coming decade, including in Europe.

“There’s going to be a big shortage in gas in the future, predominantly because of the energy-transition push that we’d say is very aggressive,” Saad al-Kaabi, Qatar’s energy minister, said at the Qatar Economic Forum in Doha on Tuesday. “Economic stability and environmental responsibility are not mutually exclusive. You have to have both.”