{"id":243588,"date":"2023-05-23T20:07:49","date_gmt":"2023-05-23T14:37:49","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blog.forumias.com\/?p=243588"},"modified":"2023-05-23T20:07:49","modified_gmt":"2023-05-23T14:37:49","slug":"methane-mitigation-policies-cover-13-emissions-most-not-stringent-enough-study","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/methane-mitigation-policies-cover-13-emissions-most-not-stringent-enough-study\/","title":{"rendered":"Methane mitigation policies cover 13% emissions, most not stringent enough: Study"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

Source: <\/b>The post is based on the article<\/span> \u201cMethane mitigation policies cover 13% emissions, most not stringent enough: Study\u201d <\/b>published in<\/span> Down To Earth <\/b>on 23rd May 2023<\/b><\/p>\n

What is the News?<\/b><\/h2>\n

According to a study, only 13% of methane emissions are covered by global methane mitigation policies<\/span>.<\/span><\/p>\n

What is Methane?<\/b><\/h2>\n

Click Here to read<\/b><\/a><\/p>\n

Methane is 80 times more potent than carbon dioxide over 20 years.<\/span><\/p>\n

It is responsible for around 30% of the rise in global temperatures since the Industrial Revolution.<\/span><\/p>\n

Agriculture, fossil fuels as well as solid waste and wastewater are the three major sources of methane.<\/span><\/p>\n

What are Methane Policies?<\/b><\/h2>\n

Methane policies are actions by governments that explicitly aim to monitor, prevent, or reduce methane emissions from anthropogenic sources.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

Currently, 281 policies are in place across sectors that release methane, including energy, waste, and agriculture.<\/span><\/p>\n

The researchers found that 90% of identified national policies were from three regions: North America (39%), Europe (30%), and Asia Pacific (21%).<\/span><\/p>\n

The policies targeting fossil methane (coal, oil, and gas) are lower than biogenic methane (released by living organisms).<\/span><\/p>\n

This trend has emerged despite readily available solutions to cut methane emissions from the fossil fuel sector.<\/span><\/p>\n

What about Methane policies in India?<\/b><\/h2>\n

In India, there are no effective policies targeting methane emissions from rice cultivation and biomass burning (burning of crop waste residues such as rice paddy straw.<\/span><\/p>\n

In 1997, the Government of India designed a policy to extract Coal bed Methane from coal-bearing areas prior to the mining of coal.<\/span><\/p>\n

But the policy was ineffective in incentivising coal bed methane production.<\/span><\/p>\n

At present, coal bed methane is not produced from any working or operational coal mines in the country<\/span><\/p>\n

Note:<\/b> Coal bed methane is the <\/span>methane<\/span> produced during the coal formation process, which gets trapped on the surface of the coal in tiny pores and fractures.<\/span><\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Source: The post is based on the article \u201cMethane mitigation policies cover 13% emissions, most not stringent enough: Study\u201d published in Down To Earth on 23rd May 2023 What is the News? According to a study, only 13% of methane emissions are covered by global methane mitigation policies. What is Methane? Click Here to read… Continue reading Methane mitigation policies cover 13% emissions, most not stringent enough: Study<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10317,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1566,4182,9],"tags":[10504,10514],"class_list":["post-243588","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-daily-factly-articles","category-environment","category-public","tag-down-to-earth","tag-dte","entry"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","views":{"total":0,"cached_at":"","cached_date":1702891691},"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/243588","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/10317"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=243588"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/243588\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=243588"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=243588"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=243588"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}