Methane Emissions – pressnews

[ad_1] Big emitters of the heat-trapping gas methane can expect a call from the United Nations starting next year. Big emitters of the heat-trapping gas methane can expect a call from the United Nations starting next year, when the global body launches a new platform to combine existing systems for tracking the potent greenhouse gas from space.The U.N. Environment Programme said Friday that the new Methane Alert and Response System — MARS for short — is intended to help companies act on major emissions sources but also provide data in a transparent and independent way. It draws on satellite measurements performed by NASA and the European, German and Italian space agencies. Data from private satellite operators will also be incorporated in future. “Each of these instruments give us a c...

[ad_1] During COP27 we’re posting high-resolution images of a methane clouds to highlight how common — and damaging — releases of the potent greenhouse gas are. All through COP27, Bloomberg Green will exclusively publish new satellite images of methane releases around the world, in collaboration with emissions monitoring firm GHGSat Inc. Scientists say reducing the emissions of methane, which has 84 times the warming power of carbon dioxide during its first two decades in the atmosphere, is one of the fastest and cheapest ways to cool the planet. Near Kirtland, New Mexico, USA, Nov. 6, 1:48 pm local time A GHGSat satellite observed methane emissions near a coal mine Sunday afternoon in New Mexico that the emissions monitoring firm said was coming from a mine vent. The company est...

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