Existing technologies could avoid 70% of fossil fuel methane emissions – yet these continue to rise
"The latest data indicates that implementation on methane has continued to fall short of ambitions.”
The latest International Energy Agency (IEA) Global Methane Tracker shows that methane emissions remained at a ‘stubbornly high’ 120 million tonnes in 2024, despite the fact that existing cost-effective technologies could help avoid 70% of that.
The fossil fuel industry has everything it needs to tackle methane emissions – including a business case, since the gas captured at production facilities can be resold as energy – yet record oil, gas and coal output and “limited mitigation efforts” have led to the continued increase in emissions of this highly warming gas.
