Nature Communications (Oct 2017)

Atmospheric observations show accurate reporting and little growth in India’s methane emissions

  • Anita L. Ganesan,
  • Matt Rigby,
  • Mark F. Lunt,
  • Robert J. Parker,
  • Hartmut Boesch,
  • N. Goulding,
  • Taku Umezawa,
  • Andreas Zahn,
  • Abhijit Chatterjee,
  • Ronald G. Prinn,
  • Yogesh K. Tiwari,
  • Marcel van der Schoot,
  • Paul B. Krummel

DOI
https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-017-00994-7
Journal volume & issue
Vol. 8, no. 1
pp. 1 – 7

Abstract

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India’s methane emissions have been quantified using atmospheric measurements to provide an independent comparison with reported emissions. Here Ganesan et al. find that derived methane emissions are consistent with India’s reports and no significant trend has been observed between 2010–2015.