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Turning methane into carbon dioxide could help us fight climate change

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Chief research scientist, CSIRO Oceans and Atmosphere; and Executive Director, Global Carbon Project, CSIRO Chair, Department of Earth System Science, and Chair of the Global Carbon Project, globalcarbonproject.org, Stanford University Pep Canadell receives funding from the National Environmental Science Program in Australia and from the Gordon and Betty Moore Foundation in the USA. Rob Jackson receives methane-related funding from the Gordon and Betty Moore Foundation and the California Energy Commission. CSIRO provides funding as a founding partner of The Conversation AU. View all partners Discussions on how to address climate change have focused, very appropriately, on reducing greenhouse gas emissions, particularly those of carbon dioxide, the major contributor to climate change and a long-lived greenhouse gas. Reducing emissions should remain the paramount climate goal. However, greenhouse gas emissions have been increasing now for two centuries. Damage to the atmosphere is alread

It’s not cows’ fault they fart, but the methane they produce is warming the planet. Robert Bye/Unsplash https://theconversation.com/turning-methane-into-carbon-dioxide-could-help-us-fight-climate-change-117317 https://theconversation.com/turning-methane-into-carbon-dioxide-could-help-us-fight-climate-change-117317 Link copied Share article Share article Copy link Email Bluesky Facebook WhatsApp Messenger LinkedIn X (Twitter) Print article Discussions on how to address climate change have focused, very appropriately, on reducing greenhouse gas emissions, particularly those of carbon dioxide, th

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