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Announcements
Bloomberg Philanthropies Commits $25M to Accelerate Satellite and Airborne Methane Sensing Technologies to Turbocharge Fight Against Climate Change
New funding advances efforts to help tackle potent methane emissions with powerful, advanced emissions data in support of the newly signed Global Methane Pledge.
Permian Basin Super Emitter Data Now Available in Prototype Data Portal
A new study published today in Environmental Science and Technology (ES&T), describes analysis led by Carbon Mapper Carbon Project Scientist Dan Cusworth, identified 1,100 high emission point sources of methane in the Permian oil and gas basin, at least half of...
Carbon Mapper Welcomes Dr. Dan Cusworth as Carbon Project Scientist
Carbon Mapper welcomes Dr. Dan Cusworth as Carbon Project Scientist. Dan is lead author on a Environmental Science and Technology journal article released today that identified more than 1,000 high emission point sources of methane in the Permian Basin. The study...
News
Geospatial World: The fight against climate change from space
Thanks to new sensors and technologies, the commercial satellite industry is now uniquely positioned to play a larger role in the fight against climate change.
Guardian: How satellites may hold the key to the methane crisis
A new generation of detectors will be many times better at tracking discharges of the dangerous greenhouse gas
Nature: Scientists raise alarm over ‘dangerously fast’ growth in atmospheric methane
Methane emissions threaten our climate, but Carbon Mapper highlights existing solutions.
Insights
From Pledges to Progress: How Monitoring Methane can Help Countries Deliver Emissions Reductions
Methane pledges are a critical step. Now governments and businesses can use emerging measurement and monitoring programs to guide mitigation.
Carbon Mapper at COP26
As the COP26 Climate Summit gets underway in Glasgow, Scotland, the Carbon Mapper coalition has a strong on-the-ground presence at this seminal event.
New Funding Expands ASU Partnership with Carbon Mapper
In a public-private partnership led by Carbon Mapper, Arizona State University is part of a team preparing to deploy a constellation of satellites to respond to the climate crisis. With the first launch in 2023, these satellites will use cutting-edge remote-sensing technologies to pinpoint, quantify and diagnose sources of the high-emission greenhouse gases, methane and carbon dioxide (CO2), globally.