In its latest update of the Global Methane Tracker, published on Wednesday 13 March, the International Energy Agency (IEA) reveals that implementing the current methane commitments would enable a 50% reduction in methane emissions from fossil fuels by 2030. However, implementation plans are lacking for most of these commitments.
In terms of methane emissions from the energy sector, these reached 120 million tonnes in 2023, slightly higher than in 2022. However, the new policies announced after COP28 (see EUROPE 13313/16) still give reason to hope for a fall.
Nearly 200 governments did indeed agree in Dubai to “substantially” reduce methane emissions by 2030, while major regulatory initiatives were announced by Canada, the European Union and the United States at the time of the summit.
However, according to the analysis, global methane emissions are still too high and need to be reduced by 75% over this decade to limit global warming to 1.5°C.
To see the IEA’s ‘Global Methane Tracker’: https://aeur.eu/f/bai (Original version in French by Pauline Denys)