GHGs Family:Major Members Besides CO2

When we talk about global warming, what comes into your mind?

 

CO2? It’s true that #CO2 serves as an accelerator in the climate change, but don’t forget other members of the greenhouse gases family.

 

For example, cows burps generate CH4, a non-negligible cause of global warming. 

 

In fact, non-CO2 GHGs accounted for 27.5% of the global total CO2 eq.* emissions in 2018.

#environment

 

Learn more:

https://arxiv.org/abs/2102.10871

https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s00376-021-1313-6

*A CO2 equivalent (CO2 eq.) is a unit of measurement used to standardise the climate effects of various greenhouse gases.