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Ahead of the COP26 conference in Glasgow, one topic we think should be front and centre of the climate debate is methane reduction.
With so much focus on net zero carbon, it's easy to overlook methane's potency. The Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change found that over a 100-year period, methane has a global warming potential 30 times that of carbon dioxide and has contributed as much as 0.5°C degrees, or 30% to 50% of warming, since pre-industrial times.
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