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Most major methane leak alerts ignored despite climate threat

·October 26, 2025·1 min read

Methane is a powerful greenhouse gas with 80 times the warming potential of carbon dioxide over a 20-year period. Cutting emissions would deliver rapid, tangible climate benefits, with the UN Environment Programme (UNEP) reporting that cutting human-caused emissions by around half is one of the most cost-effective ways to slow...

COP29: Governments, industry must stop ‘lip-service’ on methane and slash emissions, says UNEP

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·November 17, 2024·2 min read

That message comes after a new UN report revealed that, over the past two years, a sophisticated system that detects significant methane leaks has sent 1,200 notifications to governments and businesses, but only one per cent of those notifications have been answered. “We now have a proven system to identify...

COP28: Methane pledge by the ‘giants behind the climate crisis’ falls short, says Guterres

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·December 3, 2023·4 min read

As the fourth day of this year’s UN climate conference got under way, the UN chief stated: “The fossil fuel industry is finally starting to wake up, but the promises made clearly fall short of what is required.” Reacting to the pledge announced on Saturday by several major oil and...

Climate change: CO2 and methane in our atmosphere reach record levels |

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·October 26, 2022·5 min read

The agency’s yearly Greenhouse Gas Bulletin warns of the biggest year-on-year jump in methane concentrations in 2021 since systematic measurements began nearly 40 years ago. While the reason for the unprecedented increase is still unclear, it seems to be a result of both biological and human-induced processes according to the...