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IEA’s Global Methane Tracker 2025
May 13 , 2025
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- The International Energy Agency’s (IEA) has released the Global Methane Tracker 2025.
- The energy sector alone contributed around 145 million tonnes (Mt) of methane emissions in 2024.
- The three main sources of methane include agriculture, energy and the waste sectors.
- The energy sector accounts for more than 35 per cent of methane emissions from human activity.
- Around 18 Mt was from the incomplete combustion of bioenergy, mostly from the traditional use of biomass.
- Countries like Algeria, China, India, Iran, Russia, Syria, Thailand and Venezuela, which account for nearly 45 per cent of global energy-related methane emissions.
- $175 billion is needed for the oil and gas sector and $85 billion for the coal sector to achieve reductions.
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