Climate and Clean Air Coalition working with oil and gas companies to reduce methane and black carbon emissions

摘要

Specifically, the Climate and Clean Air Coalition intends to work with leading oil and gas companies to achieve substantial global methane and black carbon emission reductions. It is estimated that over 8 per cent of total worldwide natural gas production is Lost annually to venting, leakage and flaring. In addition to the US's $27 to $63 billion energy and economic losses, these activities result in nearly two giga-tons of CO2 equivalent of greenhouse gas emissions per year, over 80 percent of which are methane emissions - making oil and gas operations the second-Largest source of global anthropogenic methane emissions behind agriculture. Flaring releases substantial amounts of black carbon, which is particularly harmful to human heaLth and areas like the Arctic.