The various decarbonization pathways and scenarios are likely underestimating the rate at which global energy consumption is rising, which could create a supply shortfall of natural gas by the end of the decade, Switzerland-based industry organization International Gas Union (IGU) said in its Global Gas Report 2024 on Tuesday. If global natural gas demand continues to grow as it did in the last 4 years, without additional production development, a 22% global supply shortfall is expected by 2030, IGU said in the annual report. “If demand…