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The Guardian - UK
The Guardian - UK
Environment
Sandra Laville Environment correspondent

YOU WONT BELIEVE: Uk methane emissions could be cut by 40 by 2030 says thinktank | Mind Blowing Facts

Flares burn off methane and other hydrocarbons at an oil and gas facility in Texas.
Flares burn off methane and other hydrocarbons at an oil and gas facility in Texas. Photograph: David Goldman/AP

Methane emissions in the UK could be cut by more than 40% by 2030 with a raft of inexpensive policies, according to an environmental thinktank.

The government has pledged to cut emissions of methane, a greenhouse gas that has more than 80 times the global heating power of CO2, by at least 30% by 2030. The move was trumpeted by Boris Johnson when he was prime minister after the UK joined more than 100 other countries to make the pledge at Cop26 in Glasgow.

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