Mapping the worlds Methane emissions

 

Each year individual countries report their methane emissions by sector to the UN in accordance with the UN framework Convention on climate change a recent funding by NASAs carbon monitoring system has allowed scientists to build up a new series of maps detailing the geography of methane emissions from these fossil fuel productions. Using all the publicly available data from 2016 the research team has plotted a fuel exploitation emission map which you can see below. The maps show where all the emissions have occurred based on the location of coal mines oil and gas wells as well as pipelines and refineries and fuel storage. Methane is a potent greenhouse gas trapping in about 35 times more heat than carbon dioxide. Showing this map may give countries a good idea who needs to do some work.