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“We had expected to be substantially higher,” the program’s lead architect, Roland Kupers, told a presentation at theMany who were notified of the large methane plumes detected by satellites within their borders had signed up to a global pledge launched three years ago to cut methane emissions by 30% from 2020 levels by 2030.
Methane is a potent greenhouse gas, with 80 times the warming power of carbon dioxide over a 20-year period. To date, methane emissions have driven about 0.5 degrees Celsius in global warming, or a third of global temperature rise seen since the mid-19th century. Roughly 140 companies have signed onto another effort, the UN’s Oil and Gas Methane Partnership 2.0, committing to tackle unintentional methane outputs.
The few responses made to leak alerts were in Algeria, Azerbaijan, Nigeria and the United States, the UNEP report said.