As governments and fossil fuel companies largely fail to act on alerts from methane-detecting satellites, a new report says they’re undermining their own operations and bottom lines while missing a key climate mitigation opportunity.

Climate scientists agree that tackling methane emissions is the fastest way to slow near-term climate change. That’s because methane is a potent greenhouse gas with a warming potential 84 times stronger than that of carbon dioxide over the 20-year span when humanity will be scrambling to get climate change under control.

  • Hirom@beehaw.org
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    12 days ago

    It sounds like all of this is voluntary, so the slow pace is not surprising.

    Let’s make polluters pay with fines that amount to carbon price for leaked methane + a 15% penalty to pay for the monitoring.