Retailers in China, Japan, South Korea and Singapore were assessed on efforts to curb methane from meat, dairy and rice supply chains. None have set a reduction target, despite the greenhouse gas’s outsized climate impact.
Public finance institutions globally have directed nearly US$22 billion into liquified natural gas projects between 2013 and 2025, leveraging green financing frameworks to tag 36 per cent of it as environment-friendly investments, found a new report by Maritime Beyond Methane.
United Nations report warns current efforts fall well short of the 2030 Global Methane Pledge, but low-cost technologies could deliver steep reductions if rapidly scaled.
Coalbed methane is an underappreciated problem of global steel production. While cutting methane emissions in the steel supply chain will not produce green steel overnight, it could reduce the sector’s emissions by the equivalent of a billion tons of carbon annually, and at little cost.
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Moving in the opposite direction from the rest of the world, Indonesia plans to lower its renewable energy ambitions by 2030. The new governing administration needs to make effort to ensure that even the reduced targets are met.
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Mutya Yustika
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Capping methane release in the oil and gas sector is one of the fastest – and cheapest – ways to tackle climate change. But measurement mandates are first needed to abate the dangerous climate agitant in Southeast Asia, Viknesh Andiappan and Shareen Yawanarajah tell the EB Podcast.