IFEAA | Assessment, Abatement & Use of Harmful Fugitive Emissions

Accelerating Action To Reduce Harmful Fugitive Emissions

Fugitive emissions are accidental emissions from human activities, for example emissions of methane from agricultural manure management, waste water processing and the oil and gas sector.

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IFEAA supports assessment, abatement and use of harmful fugitive emissions

IFEAA is a not for profit association that works to accelerate action to reduce fugitive GHG emissions. Through its events programme, policy engagement and projects, IFEAA aims to raise awareness of fugitive emissions, and support action to reduce them.

Rapidly reducing methane emissions is seen as the best way of limiting global warming to less than 1.5 ^oC and can bring economic benefits.

IFEAA Action On Fugitive Emissions

Methane emissions are estimated to be responsible for 0.5oC out of a total of 1.07^oC between 2010 and 2019.

IFEAA has recently published peer reviewed research highlighting new evidence that methane emissions from manure are underestimated. So action to abate these emissions is urgently needed.

IFEAA is coordinating the Net Zero Methane Hub in Cornwall to develop a new ecosystem to promote capture and use of net zero fugitive methane in the region.

Nitrous Oxide causes 6% of global GHG emissions according to IPCC, with three quarters of these emissions caused by agriculture. Emissions are due to soil management practices, including fertilizer addition, manure management and wastewater processing.

IFEAA has convened a wastewater working group to focus attention on fugitive GHG emissions in waste water processing, including nitrous oxide and methane. The working group is chaired by South West Water.

Sulphur Hexaflouride (SF6) is a synthetic odourless gas with the highest global warming potential of any chemical. It is used primarily in the electrical power industry as an insulator for equipment such as circuit breakers and switch gear.

IFEAA is working with start-up Climate-I to develop practical solutions to capture and reuse fugitive SF6.

Hydrogen is increasingly seen a future zero carbon energy vector. However, it has an indirect GWP due to its interaction with methane, ozone, water vapour and aerosols. It’s therefore vitally important to avoid fugitive emissions in the developing hydrogen economy.

IFEAA is taking part in a DEZNZ working group on hydrogen use in the off highway sector.

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