The International Energy Agency (IEA) has released the 2021 Methane Tracker and Regulatory Roadmap. It provides country-by-country data on emissions & guidance on how to reduce them, which represents a critical step for clean energy transitions.
The IEA Methane Tracker provides emissions profiles and information about abatement options while the Policies Database provides examples of methane regulations and policies. The 2021 update includes detailed estimates for 2020 that incorporate new data for oil and gas supply as well as the latest evidence from the scientific literature and measurement campaigns. For the first time, this year’s Methane Tracker incorporates data on large-scale methane leaks detected by satellite, thanks to a collaboration with Kayrros, an earth observation firm.
Key insights include:
It is estimated that oil and gas operations worldwide emitted just over 70 million tons of methane into the atmosphere in 2020. This figure for 2020 is about 10% lower than the estimate for 2019. A large portion of this drop occurred because of the fall in oil and gas production over the course of the year – especially in countries and regions where production has a high emissions intensity. Lower shale activity in the United States also played a role in bringing down these emissions, as did efforts to develop new gas infrastructure and the introduction of new methane regulations in a number of countries.
Read the report here: https://iea.li/35Pa2Nf
Try the tracker here: https://iea.li/3p6WjZy
Details Courtesy of IEA.