Work to find and stop methane emissions is getting a $100-million boost, with an investment aimed at expanding satellite monitoring and helping countries adopt policies to rein in releases of the potent greenhouse gas.

The Bloomberg Philanthropies initiative, announced Thursday as world leaders gather in Brazil for a summit ahead of the COP30 climate conference, aims to maintain an increasing global focus on methane, a superpollutant that has at least 80 times the heat-trapping power of carbon dioxide in the first 20 years after it’s released.

Companies, environmental groups and philanthropic organizations have already stepped up surveillance, using satellites and hand-held cameras to track methane plumes. Increasingly, more of that data is being made publicly available to help pinpoint

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