A summit-level online meeting on world energy and climate will be held on the night of the 17th of Japan time, and US President Joe Biden will reduce global emissions of "methane", which affects global warming, to at least 30 by 2030. Announced that it will start efforts with the goal of reducing%.
This meeting was hosted by President Biden of the United States for COP26, the UN conference on climate change countermeasures to be held in the United Kingdom from the end of next month. I sent.
Among them, President Biden has made efforts to reduce global emissions of "methane", which affects global warming, by at least 30% compared to 2020 by 2030. EU = European Union Announced to start with.
In addition, he said, "Reducing methane is not only effective as a measure against global warming, but also has a very beneficial side effect of improving public health and improving agricultural production." I called.
"Methane" is a gas emitted by raising livestock and landfilling garbage, and is said to have a greenhouse effect that is more than 20 times that of carbon dioxide.