Natural gas emissions will blow Europe's carbon budget at current levels

Governments have been underestimating methane emissions from gas and must phase out the fossil fuel, along with coal and oil, by 2035 to keep within Paris climate targets, a major study shows

Governments have drastically underestimated methane emissions from natural gas and will miss the Paris agreement's goal of limiting global warming to 2C unless they urgently scale down its use, a major new study has found.