Plastics and the Environment

Scientists concerned by ‘record high’ global methane emissions

Biogas, methane collected from dairy farms, is piped into a cleaning facility at the Calgren facility in Pixley, California, U.S., October 2, 2019. Picture taken October 2, 2019.       REUTERS/Mike Blake - RC13FDC2E3A0

Global emissions have hit almost 600m tonnes. Image: REUTERS/Mike Blake

Robert McSweeney
Science Editor, Carbon Brief
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The global methane budget (in teragrams of methane per year) for the year 2017, based on top-down methods for natural sources and sinks (green), anthropogenic sources (orange), and mixed natural and anthropogenic sources (hatched orange-green for ‘biomass and biofuel burning’).
The global methane budget (in teragrams of methane per year) for the year 2017, based on top-down methods for natural sources and sinks (green), anthropogenic sources (orange), and mixed natural and anthropogenic sources (hatched orange-green for ‘biomass and biofuel burning’). Image: Jackson et al. (2020)
Methane emissions (in teragrams of methane per year) by region, source category, and latitude. The mean estimates shown are based on the ensemble of top-down inversion models described in Saunois et al (2020).
Methane emissions (in teragrams of methane per year) by region, source category, and latitude. The mean estimates shown are based on the ensemble of top-down inversion models described in Saunois et al (2020). Image: Jackson et al. (2020)
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