Methane Makeover: How A Cambridge Company Is Turning Pollution Into Progress

Climate change driven by the greenhouse effect is one of the primary challenges facing our species, and it's vital to explore every possible avenue for slowing its progress. New technologies for carbon capture and sustainable energy production have a key role to play in this.

Discussions about greenhouse gases usually centre around CO2, which is indeed the predominant driver of anthropogenic climate change. However, it isn't the only major culprit: according to the International Energy Agency, methane (CH4) in the atmosphere is responsible for 30% of the rise in global temperatures since the industrial revolution, with the rest mainly being CO2.

There are several major sources of human-produced methane, and in many cases it's incidental (as with agricultural emissions) or unintentional (incomplete combustion of biofuels, decomposition in landfills). It's important to find sustainable ways to dispose of this unwanted methane that don't involve releasing it into