{"id":25570,"date":"2024-03-18T18:15:10","date_gmt":"2024-03-18T17:15:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.co2news.sk\/?p=25570"},"modified":"2024-03-18T18:19:11","modified_gmt":"2024-03-18T17:19:11","slug":"methane-a-powerful-gas-warming-the-planet","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.co2news.sk\/en\/2024\/03\/18\/methane-a-powerful-gas-warming-the-planet\/","title":{"rendered":"Methane: a powerful planet-warming greenhouse gas"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Climate talks often revolve around reducing the most dangerous greenhouse gas, CO\u00a0<sub>2<\/sub> But more robust emissions of heat-trapping methane will be on the agenda at a global forum in Geneva this week. Methane \u2014 which is potent but relatively short-lived \u2014 is a key target for countries looking to quickly reduce emissions and slow climate change.<\/p>\n<p>This is mainly because large amounts of methane simply leak into the atmosphere from oil and gas projects.<\/p>\n<p>Methane emissions from the fossil fuel industry have been increasing for three consecutive years, reaching near-record levels in 2023, according to the International Energy Agency (IEA). (<em>Julien MIVIELLE, more at <a href=\"https:\/\/phys.org\/news\/2024-03-methane-powerful-gas-planet.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><span style=\"color: #0000ff;\">phys.org<\/span><\/a>)<\/em><\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Climate talks often revolve around reducing the most dangerous greenhouse gas, CO 2 . But another major emission of heat-trapping methane will be on the agenda at a global forum in Geneva this week. Methane \u2014 which is potent but relatively short-lived \u2014 is a key target for countries looking to quickly reduce emissions and slow climate change. It\u2019s [\u2026]<\/p>","protected":false},"author":7,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-25570","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-klimaticka-zmena"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.co2news.sk\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25570","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.co2news.sk\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.co2news.sk\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.co2news.sk\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/7"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.co2news.sk\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=25570"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.co2news.sk\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25570\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.co2news.sk\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=25570"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.co2news.sk\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=25570"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.co2news.sk\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=25570"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}