Short-Lived Climate Pollutants: The Urgency for Action

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Fast Mitigation Strategies for Short-Lived Climate Pollutants

Status: Active
Operational Plan: 2024
Project Duration: 18 months
Start date: September 18, 2024

Methane is a short-lived climate pollutant (SLCP) and a potent greenhouse gas. At the 2023 North American Leaders Submit (NALS), Canada, Mexico and the United States recognized “the urgency for rapid, coordinated and ambitious measures to build clean energy economies and respond to the climate crisis” and committed to “reduce methane emissions from the solid waste and wastewater sector by at least 15% by 2030 from 2020 levels and deepen collaboration on waste and agriculture methane measurement and mitigation”, including achieving the Global Methane Pledge.

Accurate quantification of methane emissions is crucial for driving and ensuring sound emissions reductions strategies. Remote sensing technologies have emerged as valuable tools to improve methane emission measurements and close data gaps. This project aims to explore the use of these technologies to enhance methane emissions inventories and effective mitigation actions in the waste sector.

To find out more about this project, here is the complete project description.

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Issues

Methane emissions inventories in North America show considerable variability between reported data and estimates based on monitoring.
Accurate emissions inventories are essential for effectively tracking progress on mitigation efforts and closing emission gaps.

Aim

Develop and provide actionable recommendations for enhanced methane emission quantification, measurement approaches, and inventories in North America, leveraging advancements in remote detection technologies to support targeted methane emissions mitigation actions.

Deliverables

Identification of opportunities for emissions inventories improvements in the North American waste sector.
Recommendations for enhanced methane emission quantification and measurement approaches to enable more effective mitigation actions.
Outreach activities to share project findings.

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