Episode 4: Unravelling nature’s methane: The threat of methane climate feedbacks

Manmade methane emissions pose a potent threat to the climate, but they aren’t emitted into a vacuum. They feed into the earth’s existing complex cycle of methane, and as much as half the methane that reaches the atmosphere every year comes from natural sources.

The most crucial of these is wetlands, and in addition to generating methane, they pose a potentially bigger danger: climate change feedbacks. You may have heard of the most famous: the threat of a huge methane release from the world’s permafrost regions. But it turns out the story might be more complex than we thought, and wetlands in tropical regions may constitute the read danger to watch…

Host:

The show is presented by: Francesca Fazey

Affiliation:

The show is brought to you by: The 2Celsius Association

Contributors:

Raul Cazan, Founder of The 2Celsius Association, Bucharest, Romania

Kim O’Dowd, Campaigner at The Environmental Investigation Agency, London, UK

Dr Roland Kupers, Global Advisor to the United Nations Environment Programme’s International Methane Emissions Observatory, Amsterdam, The Netherlands

Deborah Gordon, Senior Fellow, Watson Institute for International and Public Affairs, Brown University; Senior Principal at the Rocky Mountain Institute’s (RMI) Climate Intelligence Program, Washington DC, USA

Dr Philippe Ciais, Associate Director, Institut Pierre-Simon Laplace (IPSL), Paris, France

Théophile Humann-Guilleminot, Campaign Manager, Clean Air Task Force ,Athens Greece

Dr Dave Lowry, Reader: Stable Isotope and Greenhouse Gas, Department of Earth Sciences, University of Royal Holloway, London UK

Dr Rebecca Fisher: Reader: Atmospheric Methane, Department of Earth Sciences, University of Royal Holloway, London UK

Episode 4: Unravelling nature’s methane: The threat of methane climate feedbacks

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