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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 […]

Read More… from In The Hill: COP27: A global methane agreement can prevent climate catastrophe

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 […]

Read More… from At the COP27 Climate Summit Expert Sources Offer Intel and Interviews on Addressing the Methane Emergency

Sharm El Sheikh, Egypt – November 6, 2022.  Methane removal, an emerging greenhouse gas removal (GGR) approach that destroys methane, will be discussed at COP27 side events, including a COP27 press conference on November 6, 2022, Press Conference Room – Luxor, Area B, Press Conference 2, 16:30-17:00.  Scientists, policymakers, and climate groups are urging governments to put methane removal on […]

Read More… from Methane Removal: On the Critical Path to Avoiding 0.6 degrees of Warming by 2050

Reducing methane emissions now could help avoid a surge in methane emissions in the future….Daphne Wysham, chief executive of Methane Action, an nonprofit group, said the Global Methane Pledge is welcome but insufficient, noting that a U.N. report published before the pledge was signed called for a 45% emissions reduction by 2030….“There’s a recognition that […]

Read More… from In The Wall Street Journal: Methane Spaghetti

Controlling methane is important for future temperature increases. Methane removal technologies, if scaled globally, have the potential to prevent a global temperature rise of at least 0.3 degrees Celsius….Interest in GGR [greenhouse gas removal] is only going to grow. Impact investors, take note! Read the full article in Forbes. […]

Read More… from In Forbes: Climate Investment Opportunities With Impact, Tailor Made For Impact Investors

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 […]

Read More… from In The Hill: Climate Week congregants should address methane

In this webinar, Methane Action’s CEO was joined by Congresswoman Chellie Pingree (D-Maine), former founding chair of the Center for Climate Repair at Cambridge University and former chief scientific adviser to the UK government  David King, and a roster of leading experts in a 90-minute discussion that took place on Thursday, September 15, 2022, on the […]

Read More… from VIDEO: Methane Removal:  On the Critical Path to Reducing Peak Global Temperatures

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 […]

Read More… from In Financial Times: Methane hunters: what explains the surge in the potent greenhouse gas?