Researchers say methane is second only to CO2 in contributing to global temperature increases over the last two centuries.
“We conclude that urgent methane mitigation is needed to increase the likelihood of achieving the 2 C goal,” researchers say, in the study.and director of SFU’s Climate Research Lab, said
“Most of the methane emissions from livestock production arise from enteric fermentation, which is part of the animals’ digestive process,” said Zickfeld.Article content The climate has already warmed by 1.2 C above pre-industrial times and the goal of the Paris Agreement is to limit average global temperatures increases to well below 2 C.
Zickfeld said the world to limit warming to under 2 C the world needs to get to net zero emissions, with deep reductions in methane and other emissions. Yet that is not happening.
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