Work to find and stop methane emissions is getting a $100 million boost, with an investment aimed at expanding satellite monitoring and helping countries adopt policies to rein in releases of the potent greenhouse gas.
The Bloomberg Philanthropies’ investment was announced Thursday as world leaders gather in Brazil for a summit ahead of the COP30 climate conference. It’s part of a global effort to increase the focus on methane, a superpollutant that has at least 80 times the heat-trapping power of carbon dioxide in the first 20 years after it’s released.