Wetlands hold huge carbon stores in the form of dead plants.
The world’s warming tropical wetlands are releasing more methane than ever before, research shows — an alarming sign that the world’s climate goals are slipping further out of reach.
“Methane concentrations are not just rising, but rising faster in the last five years than any time in the instrument record,” said Stanford University environmental scientist Rob Jackson, who chairs the group that publishes the five-year Global Methane Budget, last released in September. Data published in March 2023 in Nature Climate Change shows that annual wetland emissions over the past two decades were aboutCapturing emissions from wetlands is challenging with current technologies.
However, scientists have not yet observed a slowdown, even as technologies to detect methane leaks have improved. Methane emissions from fossil fuels have remained around a record high of 120 million tonnes since 2019, according to the International Energy Agency’s 2024 Global Methane Tracker report.
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