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Editorial illustration of super pollutant sources: leaking gas valve, landfill and cooling units releasing plumes under a warm sky

Environment & Sustainability · Article

Half the Warming, One Two-Hundredth of the Money

Super pollutants drive around half of today's warming, yet a first global mapping found they received just $9 billion in 2023 — 1 in every 200 dollars of climate mitigation finance. Methane got 4 per cent of what the Global Methane Pledge target requires.

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