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  • GHGSat Unveils Carbon Dioxide Plume Images From Vanguard, the World’s First Commercial Satellite That Pinpoints CO2 to Individual Facilities

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    The carbon dioxide plume, the first shared by GHGSat, was detected from a power-generating station, with an estimated rate of 12Mt of CO2 per year.


    BAKU, Azerbaijan, November 14, 2024 (Newswire.com)
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    GHGSat, the global leader in satellite emissions monitoring, shared high-resolution images from Vanguard, the world’s first commercial satellite designed to trace carbon dioxide to individual industrial facilities, for the first time at COP29.

    The carbon dioxide plume was detected from a power-generating station, with an estimated rate of 12 Mt of CO2 per year.

    Released just as the international climate community convenes in Baku for the annual UN climate conference, the data marks a transformation in the way carbon dioxide emissions are monitored, reported, mitigated, and traded. 

    Recent research has shown that carbon dioxide emissions from burning fossil fuels are now 8% higher than 2015 levels, when the Paris Agreement that set landmark reductions targets for 2030 was first negotiated. Data like the observations from Vanguard, which zooms in to identify where exactly leaks originate, will be instrumental in pinpointing the sources and rates of those emissions, so that they can be effectively quantified and addressed. 

    “This detection is a critical first step toward a new era in monitoring emissions from space,” said Stephane Germain, Founder and CEO of GHGSat. “Ultimately, the insights generated by Vanguard will empower industry operators and government regulators with precise data required to address carbon dioxide emissions, guiding the way to the ambitious emissions reductions needed to avoid the worst impacts of climate change.” 

    GHGSat C-10, known as Vanguard, was launched in 2023, joining GHGSat’s constellation of 11 methane-sensing satellites as the first of a new carbon-detecting fleet that GHGSat will put into orbit over the coming years. Data from the satellite will enable the standardized measurement of greenhouse gas emissions at sites from carbon-intensive industries, such as steel mills, cement plants, and oil & gas facilities, anywhere in the world. High-resolution CO2 data will also improve the accuracy of country-level emissions inventories and the Global Stocktake, and build confidence in the global carbon trading market, estimated to be approximately $1 trillion as it continues to develop.

    GHGSat pioneered industrial greenhouse gas emissions monitoring from space in 2016, building a fleet of high-resolution satellites capable of tracing greenhouse gas emissions down to 25m—the area of an Olympic-sized swimming pool—and capturing methane emissions as small as 100 kg/hour at unmatched near-daily frequency. 

    Today, GHGSat serves as a trusted partner to the United Nations, NASA, the European Space Agency, and the governments of the United States, Canada and Great Britain, as well as multinational companies in carbon-intensive industries. In 2023 alone, GHGSat’s constellation made over 3 million measurements across 85 countries. Since the beginning of GHGSat’s journey, data from its satellite constellation has enabled mitigation of methane emissions equivalent to the annual emissions of nearly 3.5 million gasoline-powered cars on U.S. roads.

    Source: GHGSat

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  • GHGSat Announces Rapid Expansion, Near-Doubling Its Fleet of Methane Emissions-Monitoring Satellites by 2026

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    This sharp growth will allow GHGSat’s pioneering constellation—already the world’s largest collection of satellites dedicated to monitoring greenhouse gases—to revisit industrial sites to detect methane emissions on a daily cadence around the world.


    BAKU, Azerbaijan, November 11, 2024 (Newswire.com)
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    GHGSat, the global leader in satellite emissions monitoring, will rapidly expand its satellite constellation through the launch of nine new satellites, near-doubling its fleet of methane monitoring satellites by the end of 2026.

    This sharp growth will allow GHGSat’s pioneering constellation—already the world’s largest collection of satellites dedicated to monitoring greenhouse gases—to revisit industrial sites to detect methane emissions on a daily cadence around the world.

    As the world gathers for COP29 in Baku, it is increasingly clear that tackling methane emissions is one of the fastest levers the world has to limit warming to the 1.5 degrees Celsius targeted in the Paris Agreement. Because methane has a warming effect roughly 80 times stronger than carbon dioxide over a 20-year period, reducing its levels in the atmosphere can have a swift impact on the climate. In the near-term, every ton of methane reduced will be equivalent to over 100 tons of carbon dioxide reduced over the subsequent five years. Methane alone is responsible for approximately 0.5 degrees Celsius of current warming. 

    Today, GHGSat’s constellation of satellites traces greenhouse gas emissions directly to industrial facilities at an unmatched cadence, arming industry and government decision-makers with data and insights required to tackle greenhouse gas emissions. In 2023 alone, GHGSat’s satellite constellation made more than 3 million observations across 85 countries, identifying nearly 16,000 emissions over the super-emitter threshold of 100 kilograms of methane per hour. Since COP28, GHGSat has identified more than 20,000 plumes at this threshold, highlighting the scale of the emissions challenge and need for greater monitoring coverage.

    “Industry, governments and financial services are hungry for this data, which fills a critical emissions knowledge gap,” said Stephane Germain, CEO and Founder of GHGSat. “Since the launch of GHGSat’s first satellite in 2016, we have pinpointed and measured tens of thousands of emissions worldwide. But without the significant number of satellites required to orbit the planet more frequently, we risk merely scratching the surface of the true extent of global emissions. With this rapid scale-up, GHGSat will unlock a level of detail about greenhouse gas emissions that was previously unimaginable.”

    As part of the expansion, GHGSat is working with a group of long-standing partners, all renowned and world-class space and manufacturing companies, to develop and deliver the satellites.

    This scale-up is critical to enable carbon-intensive industries to fulfill ambitious methane pledges from previous COPs, such as the Global Methane Pledge announced at COP26 and the Oil and Gas Decarbonization Charter announced at COP28. The Global Methane Pledge counted 158 countries as of March 2024 with the stated ambition of reducing global methane emissions by 30% from 2020 levels by 2030. The Oil and Gas Decarbonization Charter saw the commitment of the world’s largest oil and natural gas companies to end routine flaring, reduce upstream methane emissions to near-zero by 2030, and achieve Net Zero emissions from operations by 2050. GHGSat provides robust emissions data and frequent monitoring of assets in support of these initiatives, and many others. As discussions at COP29 seek to turn climate pledges into tangible progress, data will be foundational to understanding the current baseline of emissions and rapidly trace leaks for mitigation action.

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