The European Investment Bank will not back the use of natural gas as a bridge fuel in the energy transition, according to its Climate Bank Roadmap for 2021 to 2025 which was approved this week. But looking at the small print, there’s still a loophole which would have been easy to fix, if the bank was truly convinced that gas wasn’t part of its future. The EIB’s roadmap aims to support the EU’s ambition to become the first carbon neutral continent by 2050, while facilitating decarbonization on a global scale. The approved plan has two broad elements. The first being for the bank to increase its level of spending on climate action and environmental sustainability to over 50% of its…