Climate Politics
Countries Set to Bolster Global Methane Pledge at Climate Summit
The US, EU and Japan also are set to announce a commitment to clean up methane emissions tied to the extraction and transport of oil and gas.
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The EU and US put methane on the map at COP26 in Glasgow — declaring the potent greenhouse gas a threat to Paris Agreement temperature goals and insisting emissions of it must be slashed 30% by 2030.
In the year since, European countries and the US have successfully encouraged more than 120 countries to sign on to a formal methane-cutting pledge, and at the UN climate conference in Sharm El-Sheikh, about 40 of them are set to outline their plans for doing so, according to a senior State Department official.