Methane emissions have emerged as a top threat to the global climate, with scientists and policymakers calling for aggressive action to curb the output.
from 2020 methane emissions levels by 2030. But few have since carved out clear plans to reach that goal.
Research increasingly shows that reducing emissions of methane is vital to keeping planetary warming to within 2 degrees Celsius above pre-industrial times to avert the worst impacts of climate change.After being largely ignored for decades, scientists now know that methane is much more potent than carbon dioxide as a greenhouse gas in the short term, even though it lingers for only a decade in the atmosphere before breaking down while CO2 lingers for centuries.
That's important because the world is on track to exceed the 2015 Paris Agreement goal of limiting warming to less than 2 degrees in mere decades.
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