Babbage: Methane—the other greenhouse gas

COP28 is underway in Dubai, and delegates are negotiating policies to slow the rise of global temperatures. While reducing CO2 emissions is the main focus, another, more potent, greenhouse gas—which leaks from cows' bellies, rice fields and oil and gas fields—has mostly been ignored. But this week, a long-awaited deal on methane was reached at the conference. Will it do enough to get emissions of the gas under control?

Host: Alok Jha, The Economist’s science and technology editor. Contributors: Vijay Vaitheeswaran, The Economist’s global energy and climate innovation editor; Bryony Worthington, a climate campaigner; Claus Zehner, a mission manager at the European Space Agency

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