Methane Leaks Are the Low-Hanging Fruit of the Climate Crisis
“The trouble with methane is that it's many times worse than carbon dioxide tonne for tonne,” Akshat Rathi says on a bonus episode of the Zero podcast.
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Methane is a potent greenhouse gas, with 80 times the warming potential of carbon dioxide over a 25-year period. However, it also degrades much more quickly than CO2, meaning cuts in emissions now can have a quick and significant effect on reducing global warming. On this bonus episode of Zero, producer Oscar Boyd talks with host Akshat Rathi about the methane problem and the ways to solve it.
Listen to the full episode and read a transcript below. You can learn more about the podcast here, and subscribe on Apple, Spotify, and Google to stay on top of new episodes.