Methane and Dual Accounting at the UNFCCC

April 2018 (LINGO).

The main message of this article is: “To reduce methane emissions, we need accounting systems that represent its warming contribution properly.”

The author of the article makes a concrete suggestion for a first step. The demand is: the use of a dual accounting system: “Climate actions on methane should complement and buy time for carbon dioxide reduction. By no means should methane reduction occur at the expense of long-term decarbonisation. A more appropriate metric exists with GWP20. Using it alongside GWP100 (“Dual Accounting”) would be a big step towards vital methane reduction.”

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Methane and the Dual Accounting at the UNFCCC