As governments and fossil fuel companies largely fail to act on alerts from methane-detecting satellites, a new report says they’re undermining their own operations and bottom lines while missing a key climate mitigation opportunity.

Climate scientists agree that tackling methane emissions is the fastest way to slow near-term climate change. That’s because methane is a potent greenhouse gas with a warming potential 84 times stronger than that of carbon dioxide over the 20-year span when humanity will be scrambling to get climate change under control.