As COP31 comes to Turkiye, satellites reveal a landfill methane problem

SEYMEN In the countryside west ​of Istanbul, trucks line up to empty mixed household waste from the city of 16 million people onto a vast landscape of decomposing rubbish, where landfill gas is captured to ‌generate electricity at a nearby plant. But far above the seagulls circling the waste, satellites detect what the plant has failed to ​capture: methane escaping at a rate that ranks it among the world’s largest recorded landfill emitters.

Trump drastically loosens oil and gas methane rules Trump drastically loosens oil and gas methane rules Mr. Trump is pushing ways of bringing down energy costs ahead of the midterms, amid voter anger over soaring oil costs caused by his war on Iran Trump drastically loosens oil and gas methane rules storyline 1 Turkiye hosts COP31 in Antalya from November ⁠9 to 20 and has made methane reduction a priority for the climate summit.

Methane is the biggest cause of climate change after carbon dioxide (CO2) and is over 80 times more potent than CO2 in its first 20 years in the air. Sharp cuts could therefore slow warming relatively quickly.