With this exciting new release, you can now simulate scenarios of methane emissions by boosting policies and practices across the energy, agriculture, and waste sectors in the En-ROADS Climate Simulator.
These enhancements enable comprehensive analysis of how mitigation strategies targeting sources such as pipeline leaks, enteric fermentation in livestock, and landfills can contribute to reducing global methane emissions and addressing climate change.
Below, watch an overview of highlights from this release:
Read more about the drivers and impacts of methane emissions in En-ROADS:
This release brings additions and changes to sliders and graphs, as well as model improvements to En-ROADS:
New “Agricultural Emissions” and “Waste and Leakage” sliders with accompanying advanced sliders to control methane, nitrous oxide, and F-gas emissions across the agriculture, energy, and waste industries
Each of these main sliders simulates the implementation of emissions best practices
New sliders replace the “Methane and Other Gases” slider in previous versions
Dietary choices can now be found in the advanced sliders for “Agricultural Emissions”
Updated carbon dioxide removal sliders to better highlight nature-based solutions
Afforestation, agricultural soil carbon, and biochar actions can now be found under the “Nature-Based” slider
Direct Air Carbon Capture and Enhanced Mineralization are now the only approaches under “Technological carbon dioxide removal”
New graphs that highlight methane emissions and methane intensity from energy, agricultural production, and more
Methane Emissions from Energy by Source
Methane Emissions per Capita
Methane Intensity of GDP
Methane Intensity of Waste
Methane Intensity of Primary Energy
Methane Intensity of Agriculture
Total Agricultural Production
Model improvements to capture the dynamics of methane and nitrous oxide emissions from energy, agriculture, industry, and waste in greater detail. This includes coverage and calibration of both the anthropogenic (human-caused) and biogenic (natural) sources of emissions.
En-ROADS Technical Reference - The En-ROADS Technical Reference is updated with details of the methane and non-CO2 greenhouse gas structure.
Event Materials
The materials for the En-ROADS Climate Workshop and the Climate Action Simulation have also been updated to reflect these changes. Please be sure to download the latest:
