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Mapping methane: Satellites seek out gas-spewing waste sites

A waste map that will show methane emissions from landfills around the world is to be launched at COP-28. Vamsi Shankar Kapilavai, CAG, describes Chennai's landfills as  'methane ticking bombs' but also adding that when presented with data on these, Municipality authorities are receptive to addressing these issues. The proposed AI map (which will make organic waste, visible through satellite imagery) will therefore give governments and CSOs much needed data to address methane emissions and its contribution to the climate crisis.

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