Agriculture is the highest source of methane emissions, and is led by emissions from livestock, the dairy and beef industries, says data available with the US
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In September 2020, Satellite Iris launched by GHGSat, Canada, observed her first methane plume over Turkmenistan in Central Asia. There was jubilation. A rainbow display of brilliant colours on-screen demonstrated human ingenuity: Iris could identify individual sources of methane even down to individual oil and gas facilities. Methane emissions, which accelerate climate change, could be observed at a resolution of just 25 metres.
Iris is not alone up there. Pascal Peduzzi, director, United Nations Environment Programme / Global Resource Information Database-Geneva (UNEP/ GRID-Geneva) shares on email: “We are also in a project for using [Satellite] Sentinel 5 for data on certain gas including methane.”
(This story appears in the 14 January, 2022 issue of Forbes India. To visit our Archives, click here.)