How do you eliminate the fatal methane?

Long relegated to the background behind CO₂, methane nevertheless plays a major role in global warming in the short term. A significant portion of these emissions is neither inevitable nor valued: they result from losses along the energy, agricultural and waste value chains. By focusing on this “fatal methane”, this report highlights a reduction lever that is still underexploited, at the intersection of climate, industrial and governance issues.

This report ofElsie Nakhle, under the direction of Jean-Baptiste Dupin, proposes an overview of anthropogenic methane emissions, analyzes the main points of loss and reviews the solutions available to avoid or capture them. It shows that the reduction of methane is based not only on technologies, but also on the quality of measurement, the transparency of data, the structuring of supply chains and the coordination of public policies.