Carbon Mapper Named to Fast Company’s 2025 World Changing Ideas List

Carbon Mapper’s methane data transparency innovations recognized for addressing the world’s most urgent challenges

Los Angeles,CA  June 11, 2025 — Carbon Mapper is honored to be awarded by Fast Company as one of their 2025 World Changing Ideas. This annual recognition celebrates innovations making tangible progress on the world’s most urgent issues and shaping a better future.

Carbon Mapper is a non-profit transforming how society sees, understands, and acts on the world’s most powerful sources of methane to address climate change. The organization leads a unique philanthropically-funded partnership working to develop and deploy satellites that pinpoint large methane events with high granularity. Carbon Mapper translates this satellite methane data into action by making it publicly available for noncommercial use and working with decision makers to empower governments, industries, and communities to take targeted and rapid mitigation actions.

This unique approach is already making a difference. Not only does Carbon Mapper’s portal make tens of thousands of methane and CO2 plumes accessible to help prioritize mitigation solutions, they have also achieved on-the-ground mitigation successes. In Texas, Carbon Mapper used Tanager-1 observations to detect a large plume of methane from an oil and gas pipeline. This prompted swift, corrective action from the operator to fix the leak, and Carbon Mapper was able to verify mitigation success with follow-up observations.

"Carbon Mapper was founded to fill a critical gap in the global ecosystem of emissions data. This recognition from Fast Company affirms the power of emissions transparency as a catalyst for meaningful change and reflects the growing global demand for high-quality, granular data on the exact sources of methane to guide powerful mitigation actions. We're pleased that this innovative program is already making a difference — and we're just getting started," said Riley Duren, CEO, Carbon Mapper.

This year’s awards, featured on fastcompany.com, honors 100 outstanding projects selected from more than 1,500 global entries across 12 categories including AI, workplace innovation and corporate social responsibility. Fast Company editors and reporters evaluated submissions based on impact, sustainability, design, creativity, scalability, and ability to drive meaningful change.

“The World Changing Ideas Awards have always been about showcasing the art of the possible,” says Fast Company editor-in-chief Brendan Vaughan. “We’re proud to recognize the organizations and leaders that are making meaningful progress on the biggest issues of our time.”

About Carbon Mapper

Carbon Mapper is a nonprofit based in Pasadena, CA with the mission to drive greenhouse gas emissions reductions by making methane and carbon dioxide data accessible and actionable. They focus on filling gaps in the emerging ecosystem of methane and CO₂ monitoring systems by delivering data at facility scale that is precise, timely, and accessible to empower decision making and direct mitigation action. The organization leads a partnership that is developing and deploying satellites capable of detecting, quantifying, and verifying methane emissions worldwide. Data from these satellites will offer the next major step in scaling up the organization's robust data portal featuring thousands of direct observations of global methane and CO₂ super-emitters. Learn more at carbonmapper.org, view data at data.carbonmapper.org, and follow us on Twitter @carbonmapper.

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