“Cutting methane is the single fastest, most effective opportunity to reduce climate change risks in the near term,” says atmospheric scientist Ilissa Ocko on the latest Climate Curious by TEDxLondon. That’s because methane doesn’t hang around like other greenhouse gases – but it does pack a powerful punch – so reducing it means we could slow down the rate of warming by as much as 30 percent, before 2050 – yay! Tune in with co-hosts Maryam Pasha and Ben Hurst live from TED Countdown to discover the three biggest causes of methane emissions, why methane behaves differently to carbon dioxide and why it matters, and most excitingly, get introduced to the methane satellite Ilissa’s team is launching this year – MethaneSAT.
Read the summary blog of this episode to get the highlights: https://tedxlondon.com/podcast/climate-curious-why-reducing-methane-is-the-ultimate-climate-hack/
Watch Ilissa’s TED Talk: https://www.ted.com/talks/ilissa_ocko_the_fastest_way_to_slow_climate_change_now
About the author
Maryam is the Director and Curator of TEDxLondonWomen and TEDxLondon, co-host of ‘Climate Curious’ podcast and has been working on TEDx events since 2011. The world is full of fascinating ideas, knowledge and theories, but they are too often complex, abstract or hidden away. Maryam wants to give these ideas the chance to change the world. Through her company, X Equals, she works with organisations and individuals to give life to their ideas through storytelling, pitch coaching and events design and curation. Maryam is also a Visiting Fellow at the Skoll Centre for Social Entrepreneurship at the University of Oxford.
