In the News – Methane Action

Global Methane Agreement Needed to Keep 1.5 C In Reach

Posted on November 17, 2022 by Daphne Wysham

Source: Methane Action www.methaneaction.org NEWS RELEASE Contacts: In Sharm el-Shiekh: Daphne Wysham, daphne@methaneaction.org, +1 503 310 7042 In Paris: Durwood Zaelke, zaelke@igsd.org, +1-202-498-2457 In New York: Stephen Kent, skent@kentcom.com +1 914 589 5988 [Sharm el-Sheikh, Egypt – November 17, 2022] At the COP27 climate summit, NGOs and scientists are calling on delegates to specify concrete steps for cutting methane emissions, and for stepped up […]

In The Hill: COP27: A global methane agreement can prevent climate catastrophe

Posted on November 10, 2022 by Methane Action

As important as decarbonization will be post-2050, it is essential to couple it with a strategy to immediately cut methane and the other short-lived super climate pollutants, as this can avoid four times more warming at mid-century than decarbonization alone can…. 40 to 50 percent of methane emissions are from natural sources, including tropical wetlands, peatlands and Arctic […]

At the COP27 Climate Summit Expert Sources Offer Intel and Interviews on Addressing the Methane Emergency

Posted on November 9, 2022 by Methane Action

A panel having a discussion at a conference area at cup 27.

Source: Methane Action www.methaneaction.org NEWS RELEASE For immediate release Contact: Stephen Kent, skent@kentcom.com +1 914 589 5988 At the COP27 Climate Summit Expert Sources Offer Intel And Interviews on Addressing the Methane Emergency [Sharm el-Sheikh, Egypt – November 9, 2022] Leading experts on methane issues who are attending the COP27 climate summit can offer intelligence, insights, and on-the-ground interviews on […]

In The Hill: Climate Week congregants should address methane

Posted on September 22, 2022 by Methane Action

In addition to climate reparations, the developed world also needs to put resources into climate restoration, so loss and damage don’t keep compounding beyond all possible compensation. Methane should be a primary focus of that effort. Given its outsized warming effect and its skyrocketing accumulation in the atmosphere, it’s the most powerful lever we have […]

In Financial Times: Methane hunters: what explains the surge in the potent greenhouse gas?

Posted on September 6, 2022 by Methane Action

A large body of water in Alaska with some ice in the foreground under which one can see methane bubbles.

If the warming Earth is already starting to release more methane, then this vicious cycle — in which warming triggers more warming — could become self-perpetuating. Although that moment could still be decades in the future, once that tipping point is reached, it will be very hard to reverse. Anticipating this, some groups are starting […]

Testimony on Methane Removal to Subcommittee on State, Foreign Operations, and Related Programs

Posted on July 8, 2022 by Methane Action

Last year, the world-renowned former science advisor to the U.K., Sir David King of Cambridge University, declared we have five years left to solve the climate crisis and announced a new Climate Crisis Advisory Group to help reduce emissions, remove greenhouse gases already emitted and restore the climate to truly healthy temperatures and functioning. Read […]

In The Royal Society Publishing: Methane removal and the proportional reductions in surface temperature and ozone

Posted on October 7, 2021 by Methane Action

Abstract Mitigating climate change requires a diverse portfolio of technologies and approaches, including negative emissions or removal of greenhouse gases. Previous literature focuses primarily on carbon dioxide removal, but methane removal may be an important complement to future efforts. Methane removal has at least two key benefits: reducing temperature more rapidly than carbon dioxide removal […]

In The Royal Society Publishing: Atmospheric methane removal: a research agenda

Posted on October 7, 2021 by Methane Action

Abstract Atmospheric methane removal (e.g. in situ methane oxidation to carbon dioxide) may be needed to offset continued methane release and limit the global warming contribution of this potent greenhouse gas. Because mitigating most anthropogenic emissions of methane is uncertain this century, and sudden methane releases from the Arctic or elsewhere cannot be excluded, technologies for methane […]

In ScienceDirect: A nature-based negative emissions technology able to remove atmospheric methane and other greenhouse gases

Posted on May 1, 2021 by Methane Action

Abstract Fulfilling the Paris Climate Agreement requires reducing rapidly the new emissions of greenhouse gases (GHGs) to reach net zero by 2050. As some anthropogenic emissions cannot be zero, to compensate them it will be necessary to remove GHGs from the atmosphere. Among possible methods, the Iron Salt Aerosol (ISA) offers new possibilities, including removal […]

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