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There’s a quick way to slow climate change. Why isn’t everyone doing it?

There’s a quick way to slow climate change. Why isn’t everyone doing it?

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Turkmenistan, who in 2023 the Guardian revealed as the worst country for methane mega-leaks, has begun to plug them. Environment editor Damian Carrington tells Madeleine Finlay why some experts call stopping leaks the climate ‘emergency brake’ and reveals

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Methane is a potent greenhouse gas that traps more than 80 times as
much heat than carbon dioxide over a 20-year period and causes 25%
of global heating today. We definitely don’t want this gas spewing
needlessly into the atmosphere, but in 2023 that’s exactly what
environment editor Damian Carrington found was happening when he
reported on 1,000 super-emitting methane leaks across the globe.
Now Turkmenistan, the worst country for mega-leaks, has begun to
plug them. Damian tells Madeleine Finlay why some experts call
stopping leaks the climate ‘emergency brake’ and reveals which
countries are still failing to act. Help support our independent
journalism at theguardian.com/sciencepod