'Imperative': How the climate case for tackling methane emissions has become unanswerable

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Existing methane pledges would deliver majority - but not all - the emissions cuts needed to align with a 1.5C trajectory this decade, IEA analysis finds

Fully implementing national and corporate methane emission reduction pledges by 2030 would halve emissions from the near record levels reached last year, the latest International Energy Agency (IEA) Global...

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