Natural gas and low-carbon gases are critical in enabling a lower greenhouse gas emissions futurey helping improve air quality, reduce CO₂, and stabilize power systems increasingly reliant on intermittent renewables. Natural gas offers a reliable alternative to other higher emissions energy sources for heating, transport, and power generation, allowing countries to transition away from coal, heavy fuel oil, and unsustainable use of biomass with the potential to decrease the carbon intensity of the energy produced.

Natural gas and liquefied natural gas (LNG) have a critical role to play in the energy transition, helping to provide energy security, flexibility alongside renewable power, and a lower-carbon alternative to coal in industry and power generation. LNG can also help to reduce emissions in heavy-duty road transport and shipping, compared with oil-based fuels. To deliver the full greenhouse gas benefits of gas and LNG, methane emissions must be reduced.

The dispatchability of gas supply for generating power and industrial output, facilitated by vast and expanding transmission and storage infrastructure is proving increasingly important and can help energy systems with a growing share of renewables cope with daily and seasonal demand variations. Combined with CCS, natural gas can be a lower carbon solution and transformed to supply hard-to-abate sectors with low-carbon hydrogen.

IOGP is committed to advancing collective technical expertise and evidence-based advocacy to support Members’ efforts in deploying gas technologies and solutions. IOGP’s guiding principles related to gas advocacy are:

Support climate objectives

IOGP supports natural gas and liquefied natural gas (LNG) have a critical role to play in the energy transition, helping to provide energy security, flexibility alongside renewable power, and a lower-carbon alternative to coal in industry and power generation.

Technology and innovation

IOGP supports the development and deployment of lower-carbon gas technologies, including CCS.

Infrastructure development

IOGP encourages investment in natural gas infrastructure to meet future energy needs.

Together, these principles support industry recommended practices and advance the role of gas in the energy transition, enabling informed, fit-for-purpose decisions that can improve emissions management, energy access, and climate resilience.