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“methane”
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The IEA’s Methane Tracker shows massive underestimation of methane emissions in national inventories
Earlier this year, the International Energy Agency released its updated and expanded Global Methane Tracker, an annual report on the state of methane emissions around the world.
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In display of North American progress on methane, Mexico and U.S. announce joint effort to tackle methane emissions from oil and gas
WASHINGTON — President Biden and President Lopez Obrador met at the White House yesterday to discuss the urgent need to tackle methane emissions from oil and gas in both countries, issuing a joint statement (Spanish version) that they will work together to develop an implementation plan and financial instruments to eliminate…
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World leaders show momentum on methane at COP27 ministerial co-hosted by CATF
World leaders, led by the U.S. and EU, demonstrated significant momentum toward achieving the goals of the Global Methane Pledge today at a COP27 ministerial meeting on methane, co-hosted by Clean Air Task Force.
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Voluntary Methane Reduction Efforts Will Still Fall Short of Methane Reduction Goal
On March 30th, at a session of the Global Methane Forum in Washington, DC, the EPA launched its Methane Challenge Program to encourage companies to voluntarily reduce methane emissions in the oil and gas sector. This program seeks to build on the work of the EPA Natural Gas STAR Program…
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Essential Actions for EU Methane Strategy
Clean Air Task Force recently submitted comments on the European Commission’s methane roadmap and outlined the key elements that must be included in the upcoming methane strategy in order to mitigate methane emissions from the oil and gas sector. The EU methane roadmap sets the stage for the subsequent methane strategy, and…
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Methane’s Moment: A Global Alliance for Deep Reductions in Methane Pollution from the Oil and Gas Sector
Until about two years ago, the oil and gas methane pollution corner of the climate world was fairly quiet. CATF had been working on methane and other super pollutants like black carbon since the first scientific recognition of the dangers of short-lived climate pollutants (aka super pollutants) back in the…
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Clean Air Task Force and partners announce $3 million in Global Methane Hub funding for work on waste sector methane
Clean Air Task Force joined RMI and the Global Methane Hub (GMH) at COP27 today to announce $3 million in GMH funding for new efforts to track and manage methane emissions from the global waste sector in Africa and Latin American.
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Biden administration’s Methane Task Force is important step toward reducing methane emissions
Today, the Biden administration announced the next step in its efforts to reduce emissions of methane with the creation of a Methane Task Force.
