Select committee: Environment and Climate Change Committee
Conclusion 15
1st Report - Methane: keep up the momentum
Published 10 Dec 2024
Paragraph 99
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Conclusion (the committee's words)
The UK has fallen behind the US and EU in the development of enhanced methane monitoring and verification regulation at the level of individual emitting sectors and sites. Though UK academics have led innovation in new monitoring techniques, we heard that a lack of clear regulation is an obstacle to utilising these at scale. Beyond encouraging good practice, this would produce more detailed and extensive data reporting to the UK’s National Inventory Report and may offer commercial opportunities globally for UK expertise in measurement technologies.
From: Environment and Climate Change Committee, 1st Report - Methane: keep up the momentum, paragraph 99, 10 December 2024
Government response
A response document is linked to this report, dated 12 February 2025. Response attribution to this conclusion has not been verified. Read the response document ↗