“One of the countries most vulnerable to climate change has also been revealed as a major contributor of methane, a greenhouse gas that’s about 80 times more potent in its first two decades in the atmosphere than carbon dioxide. It has the strongest sustained emissions we’ve seen to date where we can’t clearly identify the source,” said Stephane Germain, president of GHGSat Inc, which also picked up the plumes.”
GHGSat recently detected one of the strongest sustained emissions we’ve seen to date in Bangladesh: a country where identifying sources is difficult and emissions are consistently high. Methane levels in the atmosphere are increasing and 60% of methane emissions are linked to human activity. GHGSat precision data is helping show methane hotspots.
