{"id":46226,"date":"2022-04-05T15:42:45","date_gmt":"2022-04-05T14:42:45","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.climatechangenews.com\/?p=46226"},"modified":"2023-05-09T19:50:11","modified_gmt":"2023-05-09T18:50:11","slug":"global-hub-launched-to-help-countries-slash-methane-emissions","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.climatechangenews.com\/2022\/04\/05\/global-hub-launched-to-help-countries-slash-methane-emissions\/","title":{"rendered":"Global hub launched to help countries slash methane emissions"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><b>A global hub to slash methane emissions was launched this week as leading<\/b><b> scientists advised that reducing the short-lived gas is essential to limit dangerous levels of warming.<\/b><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Set up with $340 million of philanthropic funding, the Global Methane Hub will offer grants and technical support to implement <\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">the Global Methane Pledge.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Launched by the US and EU at Cop26 climate talks in November, <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/www.climatechangenews.com\/2021\/11\/02\/100-countries-join-methane-pledge-china-india-australia-russia-stay\/\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">110 countries have signed up<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> to the pledge to date, committing to collectively reduce their methane emissions by 30% between 2020 and 2030. <\/span>That is roughly in line with what is needed to keep a 1.5C warming limit within reach, according to the <span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) in its <a href=\"https:\/\/templatelab.com\/climate-change-report\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">latest report<\/a> on Monday<\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Marcelo Mena, the former environment minister of Chile and director of the Climate Action Center at the Pontificia Universidad Cat\u00f3lica de Valpara\u00edso, will lead the hub.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The first $10 million of funds is earmarked for the UN&#8217;s Climate and Clean Air Coalition (CCAC), which will work with 30 developed and developing countries to establish plans over the next three years to achieve the 2030 target.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">&#8220;<\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">We\u2019ll be helping all countries who\u2019d like to develop national methane reduction plans, sharing the scientific, technical and regulatory expertise,&#8221; <\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Drew Shindell, CCAC&#8217;s special advisor for action on methane, told Climate Home News.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<blockquote><p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.climatechangenews.com\/2022\/04\/04\/five-takeaways-from-the-ipccs-report-on-limiting-dangerous-global-heating\/\"><strong>Five takeaways\u00a0<\/strong>from the IPCC&#8217;s report on limiting dangerous global heating\u00a0<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Methane contributes significantly to global warming. Although it only stays in the atmosphere <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/essd.copernicus.org\/articles\/12\/1561\/2020\/\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">for around nine years<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">, methane has a warming impact <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/unece.org\/challenge\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">84 times that of CO2 over a 20-year period<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/iopscience.iop.org\/article\/10.1088\/1748-9326\/abf9c8\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">A paper in Environmental Research Letters<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> last year found an all-out, rapid effort to slash methane emissions could slow the rate of current warming by 30% and avoid 0.5C of warming by the end of the century.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Tackling methane provides a &#8220;short-term climate win,&#8221; Shindell said. &#8220;<\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Actions to reduce it can rapidly slow warming whereas decarbonisation provides needed long-term, but not near-term, climate relief.&#8221;<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The aim is for all these countries to <\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">set specific methane targets in their national climate plans, in updates ahead of Cop27 in Egypt this year, Mena told Climate Home News.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">&#8220;The quick wins are in the oil and gas sector,&#8221; Mena said, while emissions from farming and waste also need attention.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The oil and gas industry could achieve a 75% reduction in methane emissions by 2030 using existing technology, according to the <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/www.iea.org\/reports\/methane-emissions-from-oil-and-gas\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">International Energy Agency<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">. And it need not be expensive: the IPCC estimates 50-80% of methane emissions from fossil fuel operations could be slashed at a cost of less than $50 per tonne of CO2 equivalent.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">&#8220;Inaction on methane is not a technology or science problem, it is very much a political and organisational problem,&#8221; said energy analyst Poppy Kalesi.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<blockquote><p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.climatechangenews.com\/2022\/04\/04\/saudi-arabia-dilutes-fossil-fuel-phase-out-language-with-techno-fixes-in-ipcc-report\/\"><strong>Saudi Arabia\u00a0<\/strong>dilutes fossil fuel phase out language with techno fixes in IPCC report<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Rubbish tips are an enormous problem and must be addressed, Mena said. <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/www.reuters.com\/business\/sustainable-business\/methane-menace-aerial-survey-spots-super-emitter-landfills-2021-06-18\/\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Satellite images show<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> that landfill sites in the US have been leaking methane at rates as much as six times higher than estimated by the Environmental Protection Agency.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The other major source of methane emissions, responsible for <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/www.humanesociety.org\/sites\/default\/files\/archive\/assets\/pdfs\/farm\/hsus-fact-sheet-greenhouse-gas-emissions-from-animal-agriculture.pdf\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">almost 40%<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">, is farming. A cow produces an <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/academic.oup.com\/jas\/article-abstract\/73\/8\/2483\/4632901\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">average of 250-500 litres of methane a day<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> from digesting grass.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The IPCC report said that behaviour and lifestyle changes, such as reducing meat consumption and shifting to plant-based diets, are an important part of the solution.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">&#8220;We have a food system that is not healthy for people or the planet,&#8221; said Mena. &#8220;We need to build the groundwork for transformational change in our food system.&#8221;\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Better livestock manure management and changing the diet of livestock could help curb methane emissions from agriculture. There are a host of methane-busting products being trialed, ranging from laboratory-made probiotics to <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/www.bbc.co.uk\/news\/uk-england-leeds-59218608\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">natural additives such as seaweed<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> and <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/www.bbc.com\/future\/article\/20200206-can-charcoal-cut-cows-methane-to-fight-climate-change\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">charcoal<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/journals.plos.org\/plosone\/article?id=10.1371\/journal.pone.0247820#sec016\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Research from the University of California, Davis<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">, for example, has found that feeding seaweed to cows significantly reduced the amount of methane from their burps and farts.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">&#8220;We need to tackle the neglected sectors of waste 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