The Weekend Read: The case against 'bridge fuels' to fight climate change

In conversation with energy specialist Shruti Sharma

Welcome to this weekend’s edition of Lights On, a newsletter that brings you the key stories and exclusive intel on energy and climate change in South Asia. If you are not a subscriber, you can sign up below, for free, or you can support my work by purchasing a membership: This is the first of a two part exploration of the complex role of fossil fuels in the energy transition and the different - and at times opposing - schools of thought when it comes to phasing them down. Today we hear from Shruti Sharma, energy specialist at the think tank International Institute for Sustainable Development (IISD), and author of a new study on international public financing for natural gas expansion in the Global South. Sharma argues that for as long as finance flows towards natural gas, particularly in