BY JOTISRI VASUDEVAN
METHANE, often overshadowed by the focus on carbon dioxide, plays a significant role in global warming, constituting at least 25% of the current warming effect.
“The oil and gas sector stands out as a leading contributor to methane emissions,” said Dr Shareen Yawanarajah, from the Environmental Defense Fund (EDF), in a recent Astro Awani “Consider This” series interview.
Shareen, the Director of Global Energy Transition at the EDF told interviewer Melissa Idris that methane, the primary component of natural gas, is a potent greenhouse output, trapping 80 times more heat than carbon dioxide in the first 20 years after release.
“While carbon dioxide determines the ultimate temperature rise, methane dictates the speed of global warming.”
