News and Insights
Announcements
Carbon Mapper Launches Chile Airborne Surveys to Pinpoint Sources of Methane
Carbon Mapper has launched an airborne survey in Chile to pinpoint sources of methane, supporting the country’s efforts to understand emissions and setting a model for Latin America.
Carbon Mapper Launches New Initiative to Guide Global Action on Solid Waste Methane Emissions Thanks to $8M Commitment from the Grantham Foundation
Carbon Mapper announces a new $8M initiative with funding from the Grantham Foundation to fill gaps in societal and scientific understanding of methane emissions from solid waste sites worldwide.
Study finds super-emitters responsible for nearly 40% of methane emissions in five U.S. basins
Research demonstrates how the coordinated use of multiple remote observing systems enables more compete greenhouse gas quantification over high-emitting regions.
News
AP: EPA says it will conduct helicopter overflights to look for methane super-emitters
The Environmental Protection Agency says it will conduct helicopter overflights to look for methane super-emitters in the nation’s largest oil and gas producing region.
USA Today: Hundreds of sites spew methane
Hear from Riley Duren who shares how aerial surveys show massive amounts of methane from oil and gas operations.
AP: Massive methane leaks speed up climate change
Persistent methane super-emitters in the Permian Basin are having an outsized impact on climate change.
Insights
COP27: Momentum Builds Around Methane Reductions
The push to curb global methane emissions ramped up this year at COP27, propelling the methane moment established at COP26 into momentum this year.
Carbon Mapper at COP27
Carbon Mapper staff and partners will be on the ground at COP27 in Egypt to build on #methanemomentum.
Data Dispatch: Success in Colorado’s Denver-Julesburg Basin
We share a successful mitigation story from the Colorado Denver-Julesburg basin that demonstrates the importance of using multiple high-resolution technologies to find sources of methane. Authorities ultimately repaired a leak found from flyover surveys conducted for a new study.