MethaneSAT

ENABLING

FASTER ACTION

MethaneSAT’s goal is simple: to motivate and enable urgent action to reduce methane emissions.

Around the world, industry and governments are making policies and commitments to cut methane emissions. Investors, gas buyers and the public are focusing intently on the role methane plays in the global climate crisis.

The result is an urgent need for accurate, high resolution quantification and tracking of total emissions to find and fix leaks faster and document that progress.

HOW IT STARTED

TEDX 2018

Discover Methane SAT through the words of Fred Krupp

The idea for MethaneSAT was first unveiled by Environmental Defense Fund President Fred Krupp in an April 2018 TED Talk, as one of the inaugural group of world-changing ideas selected for seed funding by the Audacious Project.

WHO WE ARE

MethaneSAT LLC is a wholly-owned subsidiary of the nonprofit Environmental Defense Fund, which has a long record of working successfully with both businesses and policymakers to create innovative, science-based solutions to critical environmental challenges. EDF has been a leader in methane research, policy and management practices for over a decade.

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URGENT NEED

Beginning in 2012, EDF organized an unprecedented series of 16 independent studies involving more than 150 academic and industry experts to assess methane emissions at every stage in the U.S. oil and gas supply chain. A 2018 synthesis of the work published in Science found that the U.S. oil and gas industry was emitting at least 13 million metric tons of methane a year—nearly 60% more than government estimates at the time.

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DATA FOR EVERYONE

Along with the satellite, we will be flying similar instruments aboard a dedicated aircraft called MethaneAIR starting in mid-2023. Data from these flights will be used help refine our data analytics and augment our findings once MethaneSAT is launched.

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MethaneSAT, LLC is a wholly owned subsidiary of Environmental Defense Fund, Incorporated, a leading international nonprofit organization. Operating in more than 30 countries, EDF links science, economics, law, and innovative private-sector partnerships to create transformational solutions to the world’s most serious environmental problems.

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