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Recently, at COP 27 UN announced a high-tech, satellite-based global methane detection system called MARS.
Key Points:
About the Methane Alert and Response System (MARS):
- It is a satelite-based monitoring system for tracking methane emissions from space.
- It will integrate data from a large number of existing and future satellites that have the ability to detect methane emission events anywhere in the world.
- MARS will alert governments, companies, and operators about large methane sources to foster rapid mitigation action of this potent gas.
- It will be operated as part of the UN Environment Programmes International Methane Emissions Observatory.
About Methane (CH4):
- Methane is the second-most common of the six major greenhouse gases.
- It accounts for 80 times more potent greenhouse gas than carbon dioxide.
- Methane is about 17 percent of the current global greenhouse gas emissions.
- It is blamed for having caused at least 25 to 30 percent of temperature rise since the pre-industrial times.
Global Methane Pledge:
- At the Glasgow climate conference (COP 26) 100 countries had come together in Pledge to cut methane emissions by at least 30 percent by 2030 from the 2020 levels.
News Source: DTE
