energy-transition fuel under the Paris Agreement on Climate Change and to improve air quality and health. Wide … middle-income countries: satellite data since 2005 show that 85 per cent of total gas flared is in developing countries …

and gas operations, as well as their emissions and impact on air quality, health, and climate. While global flaring and … venting comprise 7.5 per cent of natural gas produced, their combined impact on health and climate (in terms of Social Cost of … Atmospheric Release) accounts for 54 per cent. Many low- and middle-income countries are economically dependent on oil and gas …

needed; the largest positive impact on climate and health now would come from having such assets emit less. More recognition … is needed that measures suited to developed high-income countries/regions may not work as well in developing low- and … middle-income countries. Cutting methane emissions is the most immediate way to slow the rate of global warming, even as …