US President Joe Biden delivers a speech on stage during a meeting, as part of the World Leaders’ Summit of the COP26 UN Climate Change Conference in Glasgow. Photograph: Brendan Smialowski/AFP/Getty Images
US to Cut Methane Emissions by 30% by 2030
The US president, Joe Biden, has just announced a pledge to cut global methane emissions by 30% by 2030.
As my colleague Patrick Wintour reported this morning, the US is leading an alliance of 90 countries to set out new regulatory measures to limit global methane emissions by 30% from 2020 levels by the end of the decade. China, India and Russia have not joined the pact known as the Global Methane Pledge.
Although methane breaks down relatively quickly in the atmosphere, it is a more potent greenhouse gas than carbon dioxide. Reducing these emissions was touted as one of the most immediate opportunities to slow global heating ahead of the summit.
(Source: The Guardian)
