{"id":2563,"date":"2023-04-21T13:27:00","date_gmt":"2023-04-21T13:27:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sustainabilityreport.ucop.edu\/2021\/?p=2563"},"modified":"2023-05-12T14:06:42","modified_gmt":"2023-05-12T14:06:42","slug":"in-calculating-the-social-cost-of-methane-equity-matters-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sustainabilityreport.ucop.edu\/2021\/2023\/04\/21\/in-calculating-the-social-cost-of-methane-equity-matters-2\/","title":{"rendered":"In Calculating the Social Cost of Methane, Equity Matters"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"has-drop-cap\">What is the cost of one ton of a greenhouse gas? When a climate-warming gas such as carbon dioxide or methane is emitted into the atmosphere, its impacts may be felt years and even decades into the future \u2014 in the form of rising sea levels, changes in agricultural productivity or more extreme weather events, such as droughts, floods and heat waves. Those impacts are quantified in a metric called the social cost of carbon, considered a vital tool for making sound and efficient climate policies.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Now a new study by a team including researchers from Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory (Berkeley Lab) and UC Berkeley reports that the social cost of methane \u2014 a greenhouse gas that is 30 times as potent as carbon dioxide in its ability to trap heat \u2014 varies by as much as an order of magnitude between industrialized and developing regions of the world.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-buttons is-layout-flex wp-block-buttons-is-layout-flex\">\n<div class=\"wp-block-button\"><a class=\"wp-block-button__link external wp-element-button\" href=\"https:\/\/web.archive.org\/web\/20220127122722\/https:\/\/nature.berkeley.edu\/news\/2021\/04\/calculating-social-cost-methane-equity-matters\">Read More About the Social Cost of Methane<\/a><\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>What is the cost of one ton of a greenhouse gas? 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