PARIS: The last seven years have been the hottest on record globally"by a clear margin", the European Union's climate monitoring service reported Monday , as it raised the alarm over sharp increases in record concentrations of methane in the atmosphere.
It found that last year was the fifth warmest on record globally, marginally warmer than 2015 and 2018. Accurate measurements go back to the mid-19th century. "These events are a stark reminder of the need to change our ways, take decisive and effective steps toward a sustainable society and work towards reducing net carbon emissions."Malaysia’s ‘once in 100 years’ flood exposes reality of climate change, better disaster planning needed: ExpertsThe C3S also monitored atmospheric concentrations of the planet-warming gases carbon dioxide and methane, finding that both had increased with no sign of a slowdown.
But an array of human-caused and natural sources made it hard to pinpoint why there had been such a strong increase in recent years, C3S said. Vincent-Henri Peuch, Director of the Copernicus Atmosphere Monitoring Service, which tracks greenhouse gas increases, said observational evidence was crucial in the effort to avoid"climate catastrophe".
At the COP26 climate summit last year, around a hundred nations joined an initiative to cut methane emissions by at least 30 per cent this decade. Noticeably absent was China.The oil and gas industry has the biggest potential for rapid reductions, especially through the detection and repair of gas leaks during production and transport.
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