Climate Politics
Polluters Are Starting to Heed to UN Methane Warnings
A farmer plants rice seedlings in a paddy field in a village in Siburan district, Sarawak, Malaysia. Rice is responsible for about 10% of global methane emissions due to the way it’s grown.
Photographer: Samsul Said/BloombergMore governments and companies are responding to United Nations-issued alerts about methane leaks, though action still remains too limited to drive major cuts to emissions of the greenhouse gas.
The response rate to pollution warnings from the UN’s International Methane Emissions Observatory jumped to 12% from 1% over the past year, the agency said Wednesday in a report. IMEO has issued more than 3,500 alerts to 33 countries since its program was launched in 2022.