According to a study published by NGO Friends of the Earth on Tuesday 7 November, EU countries can afford to burn gas and other combustible fossil fuels for another nine years at current rates before exhausting their share of the earth’s remaining carbon budget for maximum temperature rises of 2°C.
Even with a managed phase-out, fossil fuels including natural gas, can have no substantial role beyond 2035 in an EU energy system compatible with 2°C, due to the high levels of both CO² and...