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The Climate Question: What can we do to stop rising levels of methane?

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30/05/2022 GMT

What can we do to stop rising levels of methane?

BBC World Service - The Climate Question, What can we do to stop rising levels of methane?

Methane gas is 80 times more potent than carbon dioxide: how can we stop levels rising?

More than 100 countries signed the Global Methane Pledge at COP26 to curb methane – but emissions are rising rapidly.  What can we do about it?

Recent research shows that levels of Methane gas in the atmosphere are rising rapidly. It is over 80 times more potent as a greenhouse gas than carbon dioxide so poses a major threat to the world’s goal of limiting global warming to 1.5 C.  
At COP26, over 100 countries signed a Global Methane Pledge to reduce man-made emissions by 2030 –  experts say cutting methane emissions is ‘the most powerful lever we have for reducing warming... over the next 30 years’. 
So what can be done to stop the levels rising further? We hear how farmers in Bangladesh, along with other parts of Asia, are using wetting and drying techniques in rice paddies to reduce emissions; how cows are being fed special dietary supplements with a surprising ingredient: seaweed, but why naturally occurring wetlands are a cause for concern.  

Presenters Kate Lamble and Neal Razzell are joined by:
Xin Lan, Greenhouse Gas Scientist with NOAA and University of Colorado 
Drew Shindell, Special Representative on Methane Action for the Climate and Clean Air Coalition 
Ermias Kebreab, Professor at the Department of Animal Science at the University of California, Davis, 
Humnath Bhandari, Bangladesh country representative, International Rice Research Institute, 

Producers: Alex Murray and Serena Tarling 
Researcher: Immy Rhodes 
Reporter: Akbar Hossain, BBC Bengali
Series Producer: Alex Lewis 
Sound engineer: Tom Brignell 
Editor: Richard Vadon

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