Carrie Jenks, a legal scholar participating in the Salata Institute Initiative on Reducing Global Methane Emissions, has posted a brief titled “The Inflation Reduction Act’s Waste Emission Charge for Methane Emissions—What Did Congress Require and How is EPA Proposing to Implement the Program?” Jenks is Executive Director of Harvard Law School’s Environment and Energy Law Program, which released the brief.
Featured today in E&E News: New Harvard-led research demonstrates a new method of methane emissions monitoring, revealing massive methane releases over short periods of time, including an extreme 3-hour methane release from a natural gas pipeline in Durango, Mexico.
While experts from West Africa and South Asia wish to prioritize climate adaptation, Western finance overwhelmingly favors mitigation, they told a Harvard workshop hosted by two Salata Institute climate research clusters.
Scientifically sound, community-centered, multisectoral approaches that account for long timescales are essential for climate adaptation in South Asia. Read the brief.
At a Harvard workshop hosted by two Salata Institute climate research clusters, academics and officials from West Africa and South Asia agreed they must prioritize adaptation.
Harvard University will host an official side event at COP28: a panel with global experts entitled, “Reducing Global Methane Emissions: Imperatives, Opportunities, and Challenges”
A global pledge, backed by satellite imagery, is putting pressure on major methane emitters that had previously ignored their role in the climate crisis.
Harvard’s delegation at the annual climate talks will focus this year on combating global methane emissions, a powerful lever to mitigate near-term climate change.