Canada is ramping up its climate battle by strengthening its regulations for methane, a greenhouse gas that environmental experts say has a more potent warming effect than carbon dioxide, as the country aims to reduce oil and gas methane emissions by at least 75 per cent by 2030.

  • DroneRights [it/its]@lemm.ee
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    11 months ago

    Methane has 20 times the global warming effect of CO2, and it eventually decays to CO2 in the atmosphere. After a few decades iirc

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      11 months ago

      It’s funny how it’s methane when they’re talking about reducing emissions, but natural gas when they’re talking about building pipelines.