Joseph Aldy, Forest Reinhardt, and Robert Stavins have released a discussion paper presenting their research on methane-abatement costs in the oil and gas industry in the United States.
With a growing focus on achieving sustainable progress in addressing the challenges of climate change – over the long term and within this decade – the Harvard Methane Initiative brought together a panel of experts on methane-emissions abatement at London Climate Action Week.
Beef and dairy producers in the Global North have reduced methane emissions dramatically over the past half century, without reducing meat and milk production, thanks to productivity enhancements.
Teaming up with grassroots organizers in India, the Salata Institute's Climate Adaptation in South Asia cluster is collecting data to help workers adapt to dangerous spikes in heat.
Does climate adaptation in Africa require changing a traditional way of life? Will it require shifting to alternative sources of livelihood? If so, what should be the role of governments in promoting such a shift?
This new Salata Institute white paper addresses these questions by considering traditional fishing communities in West Africa threatened by ocean warming.
Volunteers are preserving tools and data that the Trump administration is discarding, but we are no replacement for the centralized management and distribution of a public good.
The study on which the brief is based uses satellite observations of atmospheric methane concentrations to estimate methane emissions from four large landfills in the southeastern United States over the period 2019–2023. The brief was released by the Harvard Initiative on Reducing Global Methane Emissions, supported by the Salata Institute.
Because Brazilian cattle spend longer reaching market weight than cows in the U.S., they belch out more than three times as much methane for every pound of meat. Restoring degraded pastures is helping.