#Environment
✅Global Methane Pledge
🅾️What?- Launched at COP26 - to reduce methane emissions
🅾️Objective : Stakeholders take voluntary actions to reduce global methane emissions at least 30 % from 2020 levels by 2030- can deliver a net cooling effect within a relatively short period.
⚠️‼️Important point ➡️Focus on the relatively short period above-Why? - Read below
⚜️According to the UN, 25% of the warming that the world is experiencing today is because of methane, a GHG- which is also a component of natural gas.
⚜️Methane is a powerful pollutant and has a global warming potential that is 80 times greater than carbon dioxide, about 20 years after it has been released into the atmosphere- compared to co2, it is considered a short lived pollutant
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