The Oil and Gas Methane Partnership aims to deliver a 45% reduction in the industry’s methane emissions by 2025 and a 60% to 75% reduction by 2030

Methane is a potent greenhouse gas and the second biggest contributor to climate change after carbon dioxide

Liberia is the latest country to commit to reducing the use of hydrofluorocarbons, commonly found in fridges and air conditioning units

The system features a supercapacitor to temporarily store the harvested energy and an electrochemical setup able to reduce carbon dioxide to formic acid

The energy producer says it will rely on combining bioenergy generation with carbon capture and storage

The new regulation will restrict exhaust emissions containing high levels of sulphur from being burned by ships in the nation’s territorial waters

A new UN Environment Programme report stresses emissions need to fall by 7.6% each year between 2020 and 2030 if the world is to get back on track towards the 1.5°C temperature goal of the Paris Agreement

The World Meteorological Organization warns this means future generations will have to deal with increasingly severe impacts of climate change

That’s according to PwC’s Low Carbon Economy Index, which says the current rate of 3.7% is far too slow

The increase in the unexpected emissions of CFC-11, a potent greenhouse gas, in the period after 2012 was revealed last year