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In 2024, two new satellites were launched to find methane super-emitters from space: the Environmental Defense Fund’s MethaneSAT took off in March 2024; and Carbon Mapper, launched later last year as a public-private partnership. Methane is a super-powered greenhouse gas. Pound-for-pound, methane is 80 times more potent than carbon dioxide in the first two decades […]
The cheese, yogurt and milk produced on Canadian dairy farms all share a common ingredient: methane, an extremely potent greenhouse gas that contributes to global warming. But understanding how much is emitted from dairy farms and how to reduce it has proved difficult for the industry. Now, new research aims to fill the gap and […]
The Sprint to Cut Climate Super Pollutants: COP 29 Summit on Methane and Non-CO2 GHGs Fact Sheet Office of the Spokesperson November 12, 2024 The United States, People’s Republic of China, and Azerbaijan today convened a Summit to accelerate actions to cut emissions of methane and other non-CO2 greenhouse gases, which account for half […]
The amount of the powerful climate-changing gas methane spilling out of oil and gas equipment, coal mines and landfills globally is nowhere near fully documented and what is known is “only scratching the surface” according to the CEO of one the companies that tracks methane with its own satellites. Rather than improving, the methane emissions […]