Methane Reduction: A ‘climate Emergency break’ within Reach, UN Report Finds
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In the race to curb rising global temperatures and emissions, reducing methane offers the world a “climate emergency break,” said Martina Otto, head of the UN Climate and Clean Air Coalition.Even though more short-lived in the atmosphere than carbon dioxide, methane is over 80 times more potent at trapping heat over a 20-year time span and is responsible for around a third of global warming. And while recent years have seen some progress in reducing the amount of the gas escaping into the atmosphere, the world needs to rapidly accelerate these efforts, according to a new UN report.
Progress on methane in recent years
The report marks a stocktake on how much progress the world has made since the launch of the Global Methane Pledge at the 2021 climate summit in Glasgow, Scotland. As then, almost 160 nations have signed up, agreeing to cut methane 30% by 2030 over 2020 levels. This goal is aligned with the Paris Agreement target of limiting global heating to 1.5 degrees Celsius (2.7 degrees Fahrenheit).
the last five years has seen “unparalleled global attention and action on methane,” said Dan Jorgensen, EU commissioner for energy and housing. he said this included a growing number of countries developing action plans to reduce emissions of the potent gas, as well as an increasing commitment from industry. Companies across 90 countries have signed up to the UNS methane reporting and measurement program.
Nevertheless, methane emissions are still rising and under current legislation, the report suggests they will increase a further 5% by 2030 and 21% by 2050, compared to 2020 levels. But they would have increased even further, were it not for the global pledge.
The report attributes the decelerating emissions trajectory to both a slowdown in gas market growth and new regulation – including some introduced by the European Union last year forcing fossil fuel companies to better monitor and report their methane emissions.
Around 65% of countries that submitted their new climate action plans to the UN by June this year included measures targeting methane – an increase of almost 40% compared to 2020. if fully implemented, these plans could help reduce emission levels by 8%, according to the analysis.
Though the report says this would deliver “historic progress” on methane reductions, it still falls well short of the 30% pledged in 2021.
“We need more ambitious action than the plans. They are a good start, but we need more,” said Lena Höglund-Isaksson, senior researcher at the International Institute for Applied Systems Analysis.
Where dose methane come from and how can emissions be cut?
While methane is also released from natural sources…
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