{"id":21487,"date":"2024-03-14T02:27:07","date_gmt":"2024-03-13T20:57:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/?p=21487"},"modified":"2025-04-06T12:34:34","modified_gmt":"2025-04-06T07:04:34","slug":"global-methane-tracker-2024","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/global-methane-tracker-2024\/","title":{"rendered":"Global Methane Tracker 2024"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2>About Global Methane Tracker<\/h2>\n<ul>\n<li>It is an\u00a0annual report released by the\u00a0International Energy Agency (IEA).<\/li>\n<li>It is\u00a0based on the most\u00a0recently available data on methane emissions from the energy sector and incorporates new scientific studies, measurement campaigns, and information collected from satellites.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h2>Highlights of Global Methane Tracker 2024<\/h2>\n<ul>\n<li>Methane emissions from fuel use in 2023 were close to being the\u00a0highest ever at 120 million tonnes\u00a0(Mt). This is a small rise compared to 2022.<\/li>\n<li>Bioenergy, a form of renewable energy generated by plant and animal waste,\u00a0caused another 10 million tons of emissions.<\/li>\n<li>Of the 120 Mt of methane that escaped into the atmosphere, around\u00a080 million tons\u00a0of methane emissions\u00a0came from just 10 countries, The\u00a0United States leads\u00a0in methane emissions from oil and gas operations, and is \u201cclosely followed\u201d by Russia.\u00a0China, on the other hand,\u00a0leads in emissions from coal operations.<\/li>\n<li>While studies suggested emissions are falling in some regions, overall emissions remain far too high to meet the world\u2019s climate goals.<\/li>\n<li>The world\u00a0needs to slash methane emissions\u00a0from fossil fuels by 75 percent by\u00a02030 to achieve the Paris Agreement goal of limiting warming to 1.5\u00b0C.<\/li>\n<li>The IEA estimated that this goal\u00a0would require about $170 billion in spending. This is less than 5 percent of the income generated by the fossil fuel industry in 2023.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<hr \/>\n<h3>Q1) What is the International Energy Agency (IEA)?<\/h3>\n<p>It is an autonomous inter-governmental organisation within the Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD) framework. It works with governments and industry to shape a secure and sustainable energy future for all.It was created in response to the 1973-1974 oil crisis when an oil embargo by major producers pushed prices to historic levels and exposed the vulnerability of industrialized countries to dependency on oil imports. It is made up of 31 member countries, 13 association countries, and 5 accession countries.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Source: <\/strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.downtoearth.org.in\/news\/energy\/methane-emissions-from-fossil-fuels-remain-high-despite-progress-us-tops-list-of-emitters-iea-94991\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\"><u>Methane emissions from fossil fuels remain high despite progress, US tops list of emitters: IEA<\/u><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Global Methane Tracker is an annual report released by the International Energy Agency (IEA).<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":21488,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-21487","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-upsc-prelims-current-affairs","8":"no-featured-image-padding"},"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21487","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=21487"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21487\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/21488"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=21487"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=21487"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=21487"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}