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2026-11-13 · Politico

Desperate for good news, COP31 aims for a win on ‘super pollutant’ methane

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No, it’s a super pollutant. And climate diplomats at COP31, desperate for strategies to slow runaway global warming, reckon it could deliver a much-needed win from the summit. Negotiators at the U.N. conference in Antalya are scrabbling for a response to a warning from climate scientists that the world will soon surpass 1.5C heating, the most ambitious threshold set out in the Paris Agreement. Tackling super pollutants, in particular methane, is surfacing as a tempting quick fix. While carbon dioxide is the main driver of climate change, methane takes second place. It doesn’t last as long in the atmosphere as CO2 but, by trapping more heat, is more potent.

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