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A new report by the UN team combatting desertification reveals alarming trends over the past two years which have resulted in an unprecedented emergency due to human-induced droughts. The Global Drought Snapshot report, released by the UN Convention to Combat ...

Delegates at this years U.N. COP28 climate summit that began Thursday in Dubai are seeking practical solutions to curbing methane.

DUBAI (Reuters) - A United Nations-led effort to use space satellites to detect methane leaks from fossil fuel infrastructure has alerted governments to 127 major methane plumes across four continents since its launch at the start of this year.

Released at the UN Climate Change Conference (COP28) in Dubai, An Eye on Methane: The Road to Radical Transparency highlights how the combination of pioneering technology and the UN’s convening power could plug major methane emissions knowledge gaps and trigger action at the scale and speed needed to fulfill essential climate pledges.

Methane is a potent greenhouse gas, with 80 times the warming power of carbon dioxide over a 20-year period

Romania has been one of the biggest and oldest oil and natural gas producers in the EU and has tens of thousands of historically abandoned wells, but nobody kno...

The World Meteorological Organization (WMO) recently confirmed what many had feared. By 2027, average global temperature rise will be more than 1.5 degrees Celsius above pre-industrial levels. We won’t permanently exceed 1.5C, but rather breach it on a temporary basis, and with increasing frequency. Despite government and company commitments to cut emissions, the chances of exceeding 1.5C of warming have increased steadily since 2015, when the WMO assessed it as close to zero.

The power to cut methane emissions, which fuel climate change, is at the EU’s fingertips. Here are 4 key challenges — and solutions.

Paris, 13 February 2023 – The United Nations Environment Programme (UNEP) conducted an analysis on the magnitude of methane leaked following the incident on the Nord Stream natural gas pipelines, in the Baltic Sea, last September.

The United Nations’ methane monitoring programme has signed a deal with Kayrros to use satellite data and AI to track emissions of the potent greenhouse gas.