India, Oct. 22 -- The world is getting better at spotting methane leaks, but not nearly fast enough at stopping them. A new United Nations Environment Programme (UNEP) report released on October 22 warned that while transparency in methane emissions has grown tenfold, nearly 90 per cent of detected leaks still go unaddressed - threatening to derail the global goal of cutting methane 30 per cent by 2030.

UNEP's An Eye on Methane 2025 report found that one-third of oil and gas methane emissions are now tracked using real-world measurements - a major leap from estimation-based inventories that long underestimated the scale of the problem. Its Oil and Gas Methane Partnership 2.0 (OGMP 2.0), now spanning 153 companies across 90 countries, cov...