methane
Jakarta (AFP) - Les producteurs de charbon indonésiens négligent les émissions de méthane qui contribuent au réchauffement de la planète, occultant ainsi l'impact environnemental de leurs activités dans un pays gros émetteur de CO2, selon une étude publiée lundi. Responsable d'environ un tiers du réchauffement dû aux gaz à effet de serre, le méthane est une priorité pour les pays qui souhaitent réduire rapidement leurs émissions et ralentir le changement climatique. Selon l'étude du think tank britannique Ember, seuls quatre des dix plus grands producteurs de charbon indonésiens intègrent les ...
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Rice feeds nearly half the world’s population, but the way we grow it has left a surprisingly high methane footprint. Of the 42 per cent of global methane emissions that agriculture accounts for, eight per cent comes from rice cultivation, according to a report by the Global Climate and Health Alliance. Farmers produce rice by flooding their paddy fields, which creates anaerobic conditions where microorganisms emit methane \- a powerful greenhouse gas with 80 times the heating capacity of CO2 for the first 20 years after it is emitted. Methane’s potency in the short term makes it a significant...
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Denmark will tax livestock farmers for greenhouse gases emitted by their cows, sheep and pigs from 2030, according to a radical new proposal by the Danish government. Taxation Minister Jeppe Bruus said the scheme aims to slash the Northern European country's greenhouse gas emissions by 70% from 1990 levels by 2030. Danish livestock farmers will be taxed 300 kroner per ton of carbon dioxide equivalent in 2030, and the tax will increase to 750 kroner by 2035. But due to an income tax deduction of 60%, the actual cost per ton will start at 120 kroner and increase to 300 kroner by 2035. “We will t...
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EU countries adopted today (May 27) first-ever rules to measure, report and verify methane emissions in the energy sector in a bid to slash the volume of these short-lived air pollutants, known to be up to 30 times more potent than carbon dioxide (CO2). Following an almost unanimous vote, opposed by Hungary, energy operators will need to comply, as of 2025, with new requirements to ensure mitigation measures, such as detecting and repairing methane leaks, and measuring emissions at source level. They will also be required to draw up monitoring reports that will be checked by independent accred...
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Sharm el Sheikh (Egypt) (AFP) - On the hunt for the methane "super-emitters", US President Joe Biden on Friday unveiled a plan to plug oil and gas leaks and tighten regulation as several global emitters vowed to step up efforts to slash pollution of the powerful greenhouse gas. Methane, released from the oil and gas, waste and agriculture sectors as well as through natural processes, is responsible for roughly 30 percent of the global rise in temperatures to date. Dozens of countries have signed up to cutting their emissions of the short-lived but potent gas by a third this decade and Biden ...
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Washington (AFP) - Flaring -- burning off unwanted natural gas from oil and gas wells -- releases five times more of the potent greenhouse gas methane into the atmosphere over the United States than previously assumed, according to a study published Thursday. The result is a far greater impact on climate change, with the warming potential between the stated and actual effectiveness of flaring across the United States equivalent to putting 2.9 million more cars onto the road each year, the paper in Science said. A team led by Genevieve Plant at the University of Michigan carried out airborne sa...
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Washington (AFP) - US President Joe Biden's administration announced new regulations during the global climate summit on Tuesday aimed at "sharply" reducing methane emissions by the oil and natural gas industry. The announcement came as Biden attended the COP26 in Glasgow, where dozens of countries joined an American and European Union pledge to cut emissions of methane -- the most potent greenhouse gas -- by 30 percent this decade. The US Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) said it was proposing "comprehensive new protections to sharply reduce pollution from the oil and natural gas industry...
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Washington (AFP) - Malfunctioning equipment accounts for about half of the biggest sources of potent greenhouse gas methane emissions at the United States' largest oilfield, a study led by NASA showed Wednesday. Researchers found that repairing just 123 sources found to leak most persistently in the area they surveyed using sensor-equipped planes would reduce methane emissions by 55 tons (50 metric tons) an hour. That amount is equivalent to 5.5 percent of the official estimate of all methane emissions from oil and gas production in the entire United States. The Permian Basin is a shale basin ...
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