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Spark Climate Solutions @sparkclimate.bsky.social · 12d

Oct 3 | 9–10 AM PT | 12–1 PM ET | 4–5 PM UTC

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Welcome! You are invited to join a webinar: Methane-Removing Plants: Could They Scale?. After registering, you will receive a confirmation email about joining the webinar.

As atmospheric methane concentrations continue to rise, pushing us off course from our climate goals, scientists are exploring new strategies that could harness biology to complement methane emissions...

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Spark Climate Solutions @sparkclimate.bsky.social · 12d

Cutting methane emissions is still critical—but could bioscience and plants complement mitigation? In our live session, discover the promise, uncertainties, and the highest priority next steps in research for this novel approach.

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Spark Climate Solutions @sparkclimate.bsky.social · 12d

They’ve built an interactive tool to test impact: enzyme efficiency, plant productivity, deployment scale—all in one model. The webinar, cosponsored by the @ncstate.bsky.social Plant Sciences Initiative, will explore what this could mean and where the uncertainties lie.

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Spark Climate Solutions @sparkclimate.bsky.social · 12d

Spark-funded researchers Eli Hornstein (Elysia Bio) & Aram Mikaelyan (@ncstate.bsky.social) are investigating whether crops could be harnessed to produce methane monooxygenase (MMO)—an enzyme that breaks down methane—creating a potential new pathway for methane removal

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Spark Climate Solutions @sparkclimate.bsky.social · 12d

What if plants could do more than pull CO₂ from the air?

What if they could remove methane—a gas 80x more potent than CO₂ in the near term?

Join our Oct 3 webinar to see what’s possible 👇

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Spark Climate Solutions @sparkclimate.bsky.social · 17d

Next stop: New York Climate Week

Our team of experts is excited to be participating in multiple events and discussions to accelerate progress on unsolved climate challenges.

We hope to see you in New York.

Reach out to connect with our team.

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Spark Climate Solutions @sparkclimate.bsky.social · Aug 7

Learn more about our new Warming-Induced Emissions program www.sparkclimate.org/warming-indu...

Warming-Induced Emissions

Spark is working to accelerate scientific understanding and action on natural feedbacks and support work to quantify and identify measures to manage greenhouse gas emissions from warming natural syste...

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Spark Climate Solutions @sparkclimate.bsky.social · Aug 7

We’re proud to have a stellar team of Scientists at Spark leading this effort: @benpoulter.bsky.social‬, @drmonteverde.bsky.social & Phil Duffy.

Working with a great team of collaborators: Brian Buma, Sue Natali, & Rob Jackson

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Spark Climate Solutions @sparkclimate.bsky.social · Aug 7

Thanks @jtemple.bsky.social for highlighting this important climate blind spot—and how Spark is working to shine a light on it

James Temple @jtemple.bsky.social · Aug 6

A lil scoop: @sparkclimate.bsky.social is launching a model intercomparison project to determine how tropical wetlands, thawing permafrost & other warming-driven emissions will accelerate climate change—and subtract from the carbon budget.

Researchers at EDF, Woodwell, Stanford will contribute.

The greenhouse gases we’re not accounting for

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James Temple @jtemple.bsky.social · Aug 6

A lil scoop: @sparkclimate.bsky.social is launching a model intercomparison project to determine how tropical wetlands, thawing permafrost & other warming-driven emissions will accelerate climate change—and subtract from the carbon budget.

Researchers at EDF, Woodwell, Stanford will contribute.

The greenhouse gases we’re not accounting for

mailchi.mp

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Spark Climate Solutions @sparkclimate.bsky.social · Aug 2

Spark Chief Scientist Phil Duffy—who led a major review of the evidence in 2019 while at @woodwellclimate.bsky.social—explains why the science supporting the endangerment finding is clearer now than ever www.sparkclimate.org/article/atte...

Attempt to Repeal the Endangerment Finding for Greenhouse Gases Defies Science — Spark Climate Solutions

Attempt to repeal the endangerment finding for greenhouse gases defies science

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Spark Climate Solutions @sparkclimate.bsky.social · Aug 2

The EPA wants to overturn its own previous finding—which was based on overwhelming scientific evidence—that greenhouse gases harm public health and welfare.

A lot is at stake with this decision for people and the planet, and repealing it would fly in the face of truth.

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Spark Climate Solutions @sparkclimate.bsky.social · Aug 1

New data show methane levels are rising faster than expected—beyond what human emissions alone can explain.

The likely cause? The Earth is getting hotter & nature is starting to emit more and absorb less

Spark’s Ben Poulter and Danie Potocek explain: www.sparkclimate.org/article/what...

What's Behind Record-Breaking Growth in Atmospheric Methane? — Spark Climate Solutions

Rising warming-induced greenhouse gas emissions, including from warming wetlands, are an important climate blind spot.

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Spark Climate Solutions @sparkclimate.bsky.social · Jul 31

📅 Aug 13 | 9–10 AM PT | 12–1 PM ET | 4–5 PM UTC

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Welcome! You are invited to join a webinar: Atmospheric methane in a changing climate: Will methane mitigation be enough?. After registering, you will receive a confirmation email about joining the we...

Despite progress in policies to reduce anthropogenic emissions, atmospheric methane concentrations continue to rise. Even during periods like the COVID-19 lockdowns, when human activity sharply declin...

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Spark Climate Solutions @sparkclimate.bsky.social · Jul 31

We’re thrilled to be joined by:
• Brian Buma (envdefensefund.bsky.social‬ & ‪@colorado.edu)
• Arlene Fiore (@mit.edu)
• ‪@benpoulter.bsky.social‬ ‬(formerly NASA and White House OSTP, now at @sparkclimate.bsky.social imate.bsky.social��)

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Spark Climate Solutions @sparkclimate.bsky.social · Jul 31

Join us August 13 to explore what’s driving today’s methane trends—and whether the climate response toolkit should expand to manage emerging risks, including the potential role of atmospheric methane removal.

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Spark Climate Solutions @sparkclimate.bsky.social · Jul 31

These feedbacks and changing sink behavior aren’t well represented in models—but may grow stronger with warming.

Methane mitigation is still the top priority.
But we have to ask: will it be enough on its own?

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Spark Climate Solutions @sparkclimate.bsky.social · Jul 31

The COVID lockdowns offer a clue: with industrial activity down, you’d expect methane to fall. Instead, it surged.

Scientists point to warming-driven wetland emissions + methane sink changes, possibly tied to reductions in NOₓ emissions.

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Spark Climate Solutions @sparkclimate.bsky.social · Jul 31

Atmospheric methane is still rising fast—even as we make progress cutting human emissions.

What’s going on?

We break down the leading hypotheses here:
📖 www.sparkclimate.org/article/what...

Join our Aug 13 webinar for more 👇

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Spark Climate Solutions @sparkclimate.bsky.social · Jul 11

We're hiring a Senior Program Officer for our Livestock Enteric Methane Mitigation program to play a pivotal role in advancing work to accelerate the development and adoption of scalable, science-based solutions to reduce methane emissions from livestock:

www.sparkclimate.org/jobs/senior-...

Spark Climate Solutions @sparkclimate.bsky.social · Jun 13

Super pollutants are responsible for over half of today’s warming. Tackling them is the fastest way to slow climate change.

Spark’s Ilissa Ocko joined @climateone.org to talk through every super pollutant—how they work, where they come from, and why they matter.

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Super Pollutants: The Hidden Half of Global Warming

About half of global warming is driven by pollutants that aren’t carbon dioxide. There are several of these “super pollutants” — so named because of their outsized ability to increase global temperatu...

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Spark Climate Solutions @sparkclimate.bsky.social · May 13

We need both ambition and innovation to turn from the path we are on toward a safer, stable climate future. We need to move the needle on all greenhouse sectors and gases, all at once, and fast. Gone are the days where we can pick and choose.

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What this climate moment needs from philanthropy — Spark Climate Solutions

We need both ambition and innovation to turn from the path we are on toward a safer, stable climate future. Philanthropy must step in and play a larger catalytic role on both fronts.

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Spark Climate Solutions @sparkclimate.bsky.social · May 13

This is a critical climate moment—and the stakes are rising fast. Global warming broke 1.5°C last year, greenhouse gas emissions remain at record highs, and the impacts of climate change are prominent today and getting worse. Philanthropy has a crucial, and growing, role to play.

What this climate moment needs from philanthropy — Spark Climate Solutions

We need both ambition and innovation to turn from the path we are on toward a safer, stable climate future. Philanthropy must step in and play a larger catalytic role on both fronts.

www.sparkclimate.org

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Spark Climate Solutions @sparkclimate.bsky.social · Feb 12

As we refine climate strategies, incorporating warming-induced emissions into carbon budgets and mitigation planning will be essential.

Spark Climate Solutions @sparkclimate.bsky.social · Feb 12

Climate scientists have known that the pathway to reduce near-term warming rates is to bring down methane emissions while warming is unmasked by cutting sulfur emissions to improve health and air quality. This wetland dynamic will make that even more crucial, and challenging.

Read the full paper:

The large role of declining atmospheric sulfate deposition and rising CO2 concentrations in stimulating future wetland CH4 emissions

About 8 to 15% more aggressive cuts to anthropogenic methane emissions are required to meet the 1.5° and 2°C warming goals.

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