Sustainability Committee

In recent years, sustainability has become one of the most important issues in the industry and in society. The United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change  (UNFCCC) was created in 1994 and was the first step towards a more secure future. The first COP meeting was in Berlin, Germany, in March 1995. From that moment and after the approval in 1997 of the Kyoto Protocol, sustainability became increasingly important in our lives.

The objective of UNFCCC in the last COP is trying to keep temperature rise within 1.5^oC – which scientists say is required to prevent a “climate catastrophe”. Current pledges, if met, will only limit global warming to about 2.4^oC.

A new global agreement – the Glasgow Climate Pact – was reached at the COP26 summit in Glasgow. This agreement will set the global agenda on climate change for the next decade, and some announcements were made as a scheme to cut 30% of methane emissions by 2030 agreed by more than 100 countries. The final goal is to keep cutting emissions until they reach net zero by mid-century.

From this perspective, the Sustainability Committee would like to provide an agenda and long strategic view of renewable gases to achieve  the decarbonisation of the gas sector and other sectors that consume gas for their processes such as households, industry, transportation , and power generation, and to reduce GHG emissions with the objective of becoming emission neutral by 2050.

Sustainability Committee Study groups  are structured to address these issues by renewing past researcheand analysing  best practices around the world.