#17: How China Could Curb Its Coal Mines’ Methane Emissions

With the right policies and subsidies, top methane emitter China can overcome the financial and technical challenges of capturing and utilizing coal mine methane.

Hongqiao Liu

Diego Montero

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Meian Chen

Aug 08, 2024

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Last week, China’s Ministry of Ecology and Environment (MEE) released two long-awaited policy drafts: the first is the first-time revision of the 16-year-old interim national standards for coal mine methane emissions, which proposes to tighten the threshold for coal mine methane (CMM) discharge, prohibiting unabated emissions of CMM with methane concent…

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A guest post by

Diego Montero

Senior Program Director for Strategy and Partnerships at iGDP. BA, Berkeley. MPP, Harvard. Enjoys riding around on his road bike, playing dive bars with his rock band, and sunny weekends in public parks with existentialist literature.

A guest post by

Meian Chen

Senior Program Director for Beyond Carbon and Senior Analyst at the Institute for Global Decarbonization Progress (iGDP). PhD from University of Oregon. My research specializes in the analysis of Non-CO2 emissions mitigation.