Why oil companies aren’t prioritizing the most urgent emissions reductions

Ever since I started my deep dive into methane as a greenhouse gas (and went on to build a business around reducing avoidable methane emissions), I’ve been wondering why the world isn’t acting faster to remove methane from the atmosphere. A significant slice of human-caused methane emissions is cheap to abate and would slow global heating in the near term. Yet, in the energy industry (where methane emissions make up a huge part of companies’ direct emissions), it takes separate pledges and considerable persuasive efforts to get traction on methane emissions. I now know why: We are still getting our numbers wrong. But there is a fix.