Scientists used satellite data from four major cities worldwide — Delhi and Mumbai in India, Lahore in Pakistan and Buenos Aires in Argentina — and found that emissions from landfills in 2018 ...

India creates more methane from landfill sites than any other country, according to GHGSat, which monitors emissions via satellites. Methane is the second most abundant greenhouse gas after carbon ...

India and Bangladesh, for instance, have yet to join the Global Methane Pledge, a US and EU-backed initiative joined by more than 100 other nations that aims to cut emissions of the greenhouse gas ...

According to a report by the World Bank, this number is expected to reach 2.6 billion tonnes of CO2e (number of metric tonne of CO2 emissions) by 2050. Notably, as per India's third biennial ...

The satellite monitoring company’s 2023 site-level data underscores the importance of technology in obtaining a more accurate picture of landfills’ greenhouse gas emissions, executives said.

Policymakers must have access to comprehensive and reliable data on the country’s energy scenario to make better-informed decisions for India’s transition to a net-zero emissions economy by 2070.

Aerial surveys over 200 active U.S. landfills found emissions from more than half of them. This is as much as 50 times the rate at which such leaks have been detected at oil and gas infrastructure ...