Observed changes in China's methane emissions linked to policy drivers

Y Zhang, S Fang, J Chen, Y Lin… - Proceedings of the …, 2022 - National Acad Sciences
China is set to actively reduce its methane emissions in the coming decade. A
comprehensive evaluation of the current situation can provide a reference point for tracking …

The societal and economic impact of reforestation strategies and policies in Southeast Asia—A review

MR Ahmadzai, PH Zaki, MH Ismail, P Bawon… - Forests, 2022 - mdpi.com
This paper assesses the existing reforestation and forest conservation policies and
strategies in Southeast Asia and how they have impacted people's lives. Southeast Asia …

Spatiotemporal investigation of near-surface CH4 and factors influencing CH4 over South, East, and Southeast Asia

MA Khaliq, F Mustafa, SU Rehman… - Science of The Total …, 2024 - Elsevier
Methane (CH 4) is the second most abundant greenhouse gas after CO 2, which plays the
most important role in global and regional climate change. To explore the long-term …

Country-level methane emissions and their sectoral trends during 2009–2020 estimated by high-resolution inversion of GOSAT and surface observations

R Janardanan, S Maksyutov, F Wang… - Environmental …, 2024 - iopscience.iop.org
Considering the significant role of global methane emissions in the Earth's radiative budget,
global or regionally persistent increasing trends in its emission are of great concern …

Bottom‐Up Evaluation of the Methane Budget in Asia and Its Subregions

A Ito, PK Patra, T Umezawa - Global Biogeochemical Cycles, 2023 - Wiley Online Library
A comprehensive methane (CH4) budget, including spatial and temporal patterns of sources
and sinks, is pivotal for effective climatic mitigation and prediction. This study used a bottom …

Multiple-model based simulation of urban atmospheric methane concentration and the attributions to its seasonal variations: A case study in Hangzhou megacity …

J Zhang, D Ji, C Hu, TJ Griffis, Q Xiao, X Ai, H Liu… - Environmental …, 2024 - Elsevier
Cities are treated as global methane (CH 4) emission hotspots and the monitoring of
atmospheric CH 4 concentration in cities is necessary to evaluate anthropogenic CH 4 …

Sustained methane emissions from China after 2012 despite declining coal production and rice-cultivated area

J Sheng, R Tunnicliffe, AL Ganesan… - Environmental …, 2021 - iopscience.iop.org
China's anthropogenic methane emissions are the largest of any country in the world. A
recent study using atmospheric observations suggested that recent policies aimed at …

[HTML][HTML] East Asian methane emissions inferred from high-resolution inversions of GOSAT and TROPOMI observations: a comparative and evaluative analysis

R Liang, Y Zhang, W Chen, P Zhang… - Atmospheric …, 2023 - acp.copernicus.org
We apply atmospheric methane column retrievals from two different satellite instruments
(Greenhouse gases Observing SATellite–GOSAT; TROPOspheric Monitoring Instrument …

Verifying methane inventories and trends with atmospheric methane data

JR Worden, S Pandey, Y Zhang, DH Cusworth… - AGU …, 2023 - Wiley Online Library
Abstract The 2015 Paris Climate Agreement and Global Methane Pledge formalized
agreement for countries to report and reduce methane emissions to mitigate near‐term …

Model-based evaluation of methane emissions from paddy fields in East Asia

A Ito, S Inoue, M Inatomi - Journal of Agricultural Meteorology, 2022 - jstage.jst.go.jp
Evaluating regional budgets of methane (CH4), a potent greenhouse gas and short‑lived
climate forcer, is an important task for future climate management. This study estimated …