18/01/2021 (Agence Europe) – World oil and gas operations emitted just over 70 million tonnes of methane into the atmosphere in 2020, a level comparable to the total CO2 emissions from the European Union’s energy sector, according to a new report by the International Energy Agency (IEA) published on Monday 18 January. While this figure is about 10% lower than the estimates for 2019, a large part of this drop is explained by the fall in oil production (responsible for 40% of these...