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Dan Dorner
Head of the Strategic Initiatives Office. Dan Dorner took up his duties as Head of the Strategic Initiatives Office at the International Energy Agency in December 2022. Previously, he was Head of Secretariat for the Clean Energy Ministerial (CEM), a global forum tasked with accelerating clean energy transitions. Mr Dorner’s involvement with the IEA goes back more than a decade, having worked as a lead author for the Agency’s flagship World Energy Outlook report and serving as the Executive Director’s Sherpa to the United Nations. Over the years, he has also held a variety of positions in the British government, serving as the UK’s Head of International Energy and as a senior adviser and analyst at the Treasury Department.
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Global Methane Tracker 2026 Recent insights from methane emissions studies
Advances in measurement and data processing Methane detection has improved markedly in recent years by making better use of existing satellite arrays and launching new devices, improving airborne instrumentation and calibration, and deploying tower, stationary and handheld detectors more widely. Overall, detection limits have been optimised, coverage has broadened and observation times have increased. Meanwhile, advances in data processing have enhanced both the speed and the quality of analysis.These advances yield better coverage and sharper insights into the sources and scale of methane emissions. They also confirm that effective methane management requires multi-scale measurement frameworks that combine space…
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Global Methane Tracker 2026 Understanding methane emissions
Atmospheric methane concentrations continue to rise Methane (CH4) is the second-most harmful greenhouse gas after carbon dioxide (CO2), trapping outgoing heat and warming the atmosphere through a process known as radiative forcing. Though it lingers in the atmosphere for far less time (12 years, compared with centuries for CO2), methane absorbs substantially more energy while it does. Cutting methane emissions therefore promises significant near-term climate benefits. Methane carries other hazards, too: it contributes to the formation of ground-level (tropospheric) ozone, a harmful pollutant, and methane leaks can also pose explosion risks.Atmospheric methane concentrations today are 2…
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Toshiyuki Shirai
Former World Energy Outlook Analyst.
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Zulfiya Suleimenova
Special Representative of the President of Kazakhstan on International Environmental Cooperation, Kazakhstan.
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Jennifer Morgan
State Secretary and Special Envoy for International Climate Action, Germany.
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Start Up Chile programme
…provider of off-grid solar PV via a payment application, and Quempin, which helps industrial customers improve combustion efficiency. In addition, it has supported non-Chilean start-ups Aerial Power (formerly SolarBrush), an Anglo-German developer of a drone system for solar PV cleaning, and Seeder, which facilitates renewable energy projects in People’s Republic of China (hereafter ‘China’), among others.
In 2024, Start Up Chile, a programme of Chile’s industrial development agency CORFO, launched its ninth call for start-ups, which is a rare example of a government-run business accelerator programme open to low-emissions energy innovators. -
Wind Power Concession Programme
…in turbines. The former achieved a price of 0.43 Renminbi, the latter 0.5 Renminibi per kWh (USD 0.051 and USD 0.06 respectively). The Rudong project will be powered by 50 Vestas turbines (2MW each). In the course of this project, Vestas is planning to open a blade factory in mainland China. In 2004, the Chinese Government has offered three more concession projects of 100-200MW in size, one in each in Jiangsu, Inner Mongolia, and Jilin. These concession projects will require 70% domestic content and together will result in 650 MW of added capacity. The NDRC…
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Catalogue for Encouraged Foreign Investment (2022)
…self-use equipment imports, priority land supply, and extra tax reductions in western regions and Hainan Province.The mining industry section of the catalogue highlights five investment areas: exploration of oil and natural gas (including shale gas and coal bed methane) and mine gas utilisation; development and application of new crude oil recovery technologies; physical exploration, drilling, logging, recording, downhole operations, and other oil exploration and development activities; new technologies to enhance the utilisation of mine tailings and apply mine ecological restoration techniques; exploration, mining, and ore dressing of minerals in short supply in China, such as potash and chromite.
