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Energy security and climate change: Friends with asymmetric benefits

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Combatting climate change is often considered to bring about security of energy supply by reducing reliance on imports. By modelling the impact of pursuing energy security policies, a study now finds that the inverse situation is less advantageous for the global climate.

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Figure 1: GHG emissions and energy security under different scenarios.

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  1. Vaibhav Chaturvedi is at the Council on Energy, Environment and Water, Thapar House, 124 Janpath, New Delhi 110001, India.,

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Chaturvedi, V. Energy security and climate change: Friends with asymmetric benefits. Nat Energy 1, 16075 (2016). https://doi.org/10.1038/nenergy.2016.75

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