New climate report highlights need to drastically reduce methane emissions

Heat waves, hurricanes and other weather extremes are likely to become more severe

CO2 concentrations are at their highest levels in two million years, according to a new report. File Picture. 

Cutting methane, which is produced by oil and gas drilling and agriculture, particularly livestock farming, could help to stall rising temperatures, the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) has said in its latest report Climate Change 2021.

The report also revealed that carbon dioxide (CO2) and methane (CH4) emissions must be reduced in order to alleviate the damage that is being caused to the earth and that CO2 concentrations are at their highest levels in two million years.