Billions in gas projects stranded by climate change action, says thinktank

Carbon Tracker report reveals keeping to emissions targets would render obsolete more than $280bn worth of global liquefied natural gas projects

More than $280bn (180bn) of liquefied natural gas (LNG) projects being planned over the next decade risk becoming "stranded" if global action is taken to limit climate change to 2C, according to a report by the thinktank Carbon Tracker.

LNG projects allow gas to be compressed into tankers and sold around the world, making it key to hopes in the US, Canada and Australia of fully exploiting their gas reserves.