The Paris climate change deal spells the beginning of the end for cooking and heating with gas, experts have claimed.

Gas, although cleaner than coal, is our biggest source of greenhouse gas emissions – generating 169million tons of CO2 in 2014.

Bob Ward, who is policy director at the Grantham Research Institute of Climate Change, said that to meet Britain’s commitments the days of cooking with gas were numbered.

He said: ‘The only possible use of fossil fuels that will continue is if they are used to generate electricity, but this will only happen if the carbon dioxide they create is captured and stored.

‘Gas cookers will be phased out, probably as soon as possible. I suspect manufacturers will simply stop making them.’

He added that in years to come some form of carbon tax putting up the cost of gas is inevitable – which will make electric cookers much cheaper than their gas rivals.

However from inside the industry, the collapse of gas products may roll around sooner as ever tighter regulations surrounding the ability to service and maintain gas products is making it increasingly harder to find service personnel capable of servicing gas fired appliances. In many areas of the UK already, there is no gas service cover for domestic appliances. To put it simply – for most the cost of being able to carry out gas service work will increasingly make it uneconomical.

Our suggestion is that if you have a gas product that needs changing it would be best to switch to an all electrical product. Despite the fact they will still be legal for years to come, you may struggle to find a serviceman able to repair should it break, and with growing evidence suggesting the use of gas stoves without an extractor hood can be detrimental to the air quality in our homes we strongly believe an all electrical product is the future.