UN to Track Methane Emitters From Space With ‘MARS' System
starting next year, when the global body launches a new platform to combine existing systems for tracking the potent greenhouse gas from space.
“Each of these instruments give us a correct answer to a question that is slightly different, because each of them see different things," said Manfredi Caltagirone, head of the International Methane Emissions Observatory at UNEP."So the only way you can have a correct picture is to connect them all together.”Sign up for NBC Chicago newsletters.
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