Joe Biden is pushing for an unprecedented, multibillion-dollar crackdown on a vital, but neglected, cause of climate change The little-reported initiative is attracting worldwide support – but Britain is dragging its feet 🔎 Analysis by GeoffreyLean
Biden aims to spread the campaign against methane worldwide, and has made it a centrepiece of four climate summits he has held for world leaders since taking office.
Research by the Green Alliance shows the UK could reduce its methane emissions by 43 per cent by 2030 – exceeding the pledge’s 30 per cent – at little cost, but is on course only to trim them by 14 per cent, failing to honour its international obligations. It recently rejected a report’s recommendation to ban flaring from 2025.seems less interested. He failed to turn up to Biden’s last summit, though the White House was expecting him, sending energy secretary Grant Shapps instead.
Campaigners are pressing for strong measures to reduce emissions to be agreed at December’s climate COP in Dubai, leading to a global treaty. Reducing C02 is vital for keeping global warming under control in the second half of the century and beyond – but it can increase it in the short term. The US administration is finalising tough new regulations to slash methane emissions, which have caused almost as much climate change globally as the infinitely more publicised carbon dioxide . The regulation includes cutting pollution from oil and gas wells by almost 90 per cent by 2030, and the world’s first fee for emitting the greenhouse gas.
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