Coronavirus-related lockdowns around the globe have, in massively reducing car and air transport, temporarily enforced some of the measures needed to combat global climate change. But when the world comes out of its enforced semi-hibernation, recovery measures to kick-start economies will likely have the opposite effect, with industries and transport scaling up again.

In the midst of the growing pandemic, a report into how adopters of LNG as a ship's fuel can maintain — despite its major methane emissions downside — a pathway to further decarbonisation was issued by the marine-fuel lobby group SEA\LNG.