My investigation into the greenhouse gas monitoring and reporting in the Port and, wider, the Netherlands, shows asevere under-reporting of the second-most important greenhouse gas, methane. This under-reporting is especially severe as thePort develops solutions it claims to be sustainable - LNG for maritime transport, hydrogen for energy - but which will actually increase the Port’s climate impact.
Simultaneously, methane emissions in the energy sector can be easily minimised at a low cost- provided they are detected. The situation in the Port illustrates a much wider misunderstanding of greenhouse gas reporting,where even the Dutch government gets confused.
The second part of my research focused on a big-picture view of the Port’s energy transition, placing the solutions it is developingand their critiques in a geopolitical context. This article is forthcoming at the beginning of June.
