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Mitigation of methane (CH4) emissions—particularly point sources from the energy, waste, and some agricultural sectors—has strong near-term tractability because it involves detecting and repairing local fugitive emissions rather than economy-wide shifts in energy and transportation infrastructure associated with fossil fuel carbon dioxide (CO2) mitigation. Monitoring anthropogenic CH4 fluxes is generally more tractable (with existing technology) than monitoring CO2 fluxes, since the latter includes large, confounding fluxes from the biosphere. However, area sources of CH4 such as wetlands and some agricultural fluxes (e.g., rice and enteric livestock emissions) continue to present a challenge.↩
Carbon dioxide equivalent (CO2e): Amount of CO2 that would produce the same effect on the radiative balance of Earth’s climate system as another greenhouse gas, such as methane (CH4) or nitrous oxide (N2O), on a 100-year timescale. For comparison to units of carbon, each kg CO2e is equivalent to 0.273 kg C (0.273 = 1/3.67). See Box P.2, p. 12, in the Preface for details.↩
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