Gas demand from industry will probably pick up; gas-fired power stations may start to replace coal-fired ones.

工业对天然气的需求可能会回升；燃气发电站可能将开始取代燃煤发电站。

Developing economies in Asia make up about half of worldwide gas demand growth.

亚洲发展中经济体约占全球天然气需求增长的一半。

" Nobody knows what the EU's gas demand will be after 2030, " says David Goldwyn, an energy expert.

“没有人知道 2030 年后欧盟的天然气需求会是多少，”能源专家大卫戈德温说。

Meanwhile, European Union member states have agreed to reduce their gas demand by 15 percent compared to their average consumption in the past five years.

同时，欧盟成员国同意在过去五年的平均消费量基础上减少 15% 的天然气需求。

Historically there has been a relatively linear relationship between gas demand and the temperature: the colder it gets, the more gas is needed.

从历史上看，天然气需求与温度之间存在相对线性的关系：温度越低，需要的天然气就越多。

We should be aiming to reduce coal demand 90 percent by 2050, oil demand at least 75 percentand gas demand by well over 50 percent.

我们的目标应该是到 2050 年将煤炭需求减少 90%，石油需求至少减少 75%，天然气需求减少 50% 以上。

As for the gas brigade, he proposes that they work with the greens in a broad alliance that presses for environmental legislation to boost gas demand at the expense of coal (which is far dirtier).

至于那些开发页岩气的人，他提议应该与环境主义者们更行宽领域的联合，敦促环境立法来促进天然气需求，而不是使用煤炭（比起页岩气更脏）。