The report also states that if governments do not take decisive action, then the goals of the Paris
In the report, a detailed summary of which wasreviewed in The New York Times, the fossil fuel industry stands out as having the greatest potential to reduce methane emissions at little or no cost. Without the deployment of even unproven technologies to capture greenhouse gases from the air, growing use of natural gas is inconsistent with meeting the goals of the Paris climate agreement, the authors note.
Let us remind you that the Paris Agreement is legallya binding international treaty on climate change. It was adopted by 196 Parties at the 21st session of the Conference of the Parties to the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (COP 21 to the UNFCCC) on 12 December 2015 in Paris. The Agreement came into force on November 4, 2016.
The purpose of the Paris Agreement is to retainincrease in global average temperature well below 2 degrees Celsius above pre-industrial levels, with efforts to limit temperature increases to 1.5 degrees Celsius. To achieve this strategic goal, countries are striving to pass the peak of global greenhouse gas emissions as quickly as possible to build a climate-neutral world by the middle of the 21st century.
The authors of the report explained why methane turned out to bemore important than previously thought in the fight against climate change. Although this hydrocarbon is a powerful greenhouse gas, it is also relatively short-lived. It does not linger in the atmosphere for only ten years before collapsing. Reducing new methane emissions today and working to reduce atmospheric CH₄ concentrations will allow the world to meet its mid-century global warming targets much faster.
Carbon dioxide is the biggest driverclimate change, but efforts to reduce methane are more effective in the short term. It warms the atmosphere 80 times more than the same amount of CO₂ over a 20-year period.
The UN noted that reducing methane emissions would prevent 250,000 premature deaths, 70 billion hours of lost labor due to extreme heat and 25 million tons of crop loss per year,starting in 2030... More than 750,000 people will not be affected by asthma or other respiratory diseases.
Let us recall that natural gas is a mixture of hydrocarbons, mainly methane, with small admixtures of other gases, extracted from sedimentary rocks of the Earth.
Since the middle of the 20th century, it has been an important usefulfossils widely used in energy as an energy carrier and in large-scale chemistry as a source of hydrocarbon raw materials for the synthesis of polymers and nitrogen fertilizers. Natural gas in reservoir conditions (conditions of occurrence in the earth's interior) is in a gaseous state - in the form of separate accumulations (gas deposits) or in the form of a gas cap of oil and gas fields, or in a dissolved state in oil or water. Under normal conditions (101.325 kPa and 20 ° C), natural gas is only gaseous. Also, natural gas can be in a crystalline state in the form of natural gas hydrates.
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