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A short brief on what changed in power, emissions and the grid — with the chart, the source and the link. Published Monday, Wednesday and Friday.

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Methane emissions

Carbon Ledger

Methane from fossil fuels, industry, agriculture and land-use change — the gas this beat is actually about.

Carbon Ledger · Annual · 1850–2024 · tonnes CO₂e
Methane from fossil fuels, industry, agriculture and land-use change — the gas this beat is actually about. · Source: Our World in Data, Methane emissions · CC BY 4.0 · Get the data

Changes every three days — next on 26 Aug 2026

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Briefings

What we're reading, and what we make of it

Curated reporting and research from across the beats, each with our own read on it.

Carbon LedgerReport

Global Methane Tracker 2026

International Energy Agency (IEA)04 May 2026

The IEA have now published some version of the same sentence for years: more than 35 million tonnes of methane could be captured at no net cost, because the gas…

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Power MixReport

Electricity Mid-Year Update 2026

International Energy Agency (IEA)23 Jul 2026

The headline pairing here does the work: renewables growing more than 8 percent, and power-sector emissions still rising about 1 percent. Both are true, and the gap between them is…

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