The New Faces of GWP*: Temperature neutrality and no additional warming
Briefing paper: The New Faces of GWP*
Our latest briefing paper, *The New Faces of GWP*, revisits the debate around this controversial metric and how it’s being used to distort progress on methane. The Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change has explicitly rejected GWP*, and now we see more and more scientists worldwide doing the same.
In 2023, our report Seeing Stars exposed how GWP* can allow companies and countries to claim they are ‘climate neutral’ or even ‘cooling the planet’ while continuing to emit huge amounts of methane. This new briefing updates that research with fresh findings from freedom of information requests across Ireland, Aotearoa (New Zealand), Europe and Northern Ireland, looking at the state-of-play in the lead up to COP30.
It unpacks the new terminology emerging around the metric — from ‘no additional warming’ to ‘temperature neutrality’, being used to obscure the reality behind the use of the metric. The briefing paper also examines how countries’ use of GWP* translates into actual on-the-ground emissions.
You might also like...
Hot Money: 40 Financial Institutions are funding a climate-changing agri-methane footprint
This report focuses on the 20 investors and 20 banks that are funding the methane generating activities of 15 of the leading meat and dairy companies worldwide. Collectively these financial institutions fu...
Truth, Lies and Culture Wars – Social listening analysis of meat and dairy persuasion narratives
This study is a deep dive into information and misinformation on social media around production and consumption of animal products.
Blindspot: How lack of action on livestock methane undermines climate targets
The livestock agricultural sector is the single largest contributor to man-made methane emissions. Enteric fermentation in stomachs of ruminants, such as cows and goats, and manure management is responsible ...