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Although responsible for only a small proportion of fossil fuel methane emissions, the LNG industry should be an exemplar in implementing the new regulations.

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Open access notables Publishing in the Journal of Hydrometeorology, Rasmus Wuff proposes a new hydrometeorological metric to help track changes in precipitation as we change our climate, precipitation intensity duration index or PID. As the title implies,  The World’s Largest Point Rainfall Found Using the Precipitation Intensity Duration Index reveals a rather eye-popping statistic: in 2007 over the course of just 4 days, Réunion Islands Cratère Comm...

Methane is becoming a serious threat to humanity, and Canada’s oil and gas industry is emitting a huge amount of it.

Rapid cuts in methane emissions from fossil fuel production and use are needed to limit global warming to 1.5 °C, according to a new report by the International Energy Agency (IEA).

Urgent action to cut methane emissions from fossil fuel operations essential to achieve global climate targets - News from the International Energy Agency

Paris, 11 October 2023 - Decisive, far-reaching efforts to cut methane emissions from fossil fuel production and use must go hand-in-hand with decarbonisation of our energy systems to limit global warming to 1.5 °C, according to a new report by the International Energy Agency (IEA) in partnership with the United Nations Environment Programme (UNEP) and the UNEP-convened Climate and Clean Air Coalition (CCAC). 

The International Energy Agency, in collaboration with the UNEP and CCAC, emphasizes the need for significant efforts to reduce methane emissions from fossil fuel production.