{"id":214112,"date":"2022-11-12T19:45:20","date_gmt":"2022-11-12T14:15:20","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blog.forumias.com\/?p=214112"},"modified":"2022-11-12T20:02:42","modified_gmt":"2022-11-12T14:32:42","slug":"at-cop27-biden-tightens-methane-emissions-rule","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/at-cop27-biden-tightens-methane-emissions-rule\/","title":{"rendered":"At COP27, Biden tightens methane emissions rule"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><b>Source: <\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The post is based on the article<\/span><b> \u201c<\/b><b>At COP27, Biden tightens methane emissions rule<\/b><b>\u201d<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> published in <\/span><b>TOI <\/b>on<b> 11th November 2022.<\/b><\/p>\n<h5><b>What is the News?<\/b><\/h5>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The US President has announced new <\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">initiatives at COP27 to strengthen the U.S. Leadership in tackling Climate Change.<\/span><\/p>\n<h5><b>What are the new initiatives announced by the US President at COP27?<\/b><\/h5>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: var(--list--font-family); color: var(--global--color-primary); font-size: var(--global--font-size-base); background-color: var(--global--color-background);\">1. Doubling the US pledge to the adaptation fund to $100 million for global climate resilience.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">2. Expanding access to its early warning system for African countries and\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">3. Strengthening proposed domestic methane regulations in the oil and gas sector that would reduce the country\u2019s methane from covered sources by 87% below 2005 levels.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">This will help in meeting the <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/biden-unveils-plan-to-cut-methane-emissions\/\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Global Methane Pledge(GMP) <\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">target which has been endorsed by over 130 countries representing half of the global methane emissions.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<h5><b>India and the Global Methane Pledge(GMP)<\/b><\/h5>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">India is among the top 10 emitters of methane but chose not to sign the Global Methane Pledge.\u00a0<\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">This was because there was a possibility of expanding this pledge to cover mitigation in farm and livestock sectors.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">This <\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">would affect India&#8217;s agriculture and livestock sector which plays an important role in its rural economy, and it is necessary to protect them from being affected.<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Source: The post is based on the article \u201cAt COP27, Biden tightens methane emissions rule\u201d published in TOI on 11th November 2022. What is the News? The US President has announced new initiatives at COP27 to strengthen the U.S. Leadership in tackling Climate Change. What are the new initiatives announced by the US President at&hellip; <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/at-cop27-biden-tightens-methane-emissions-rule\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">At COP27, Biden tightens methane emissions rule<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10317,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1566,4182,9],"tags":[10496],"class_list":["post-214112","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-daily-factly-articles","category-environment","category-public","tag-times-of-india","entry"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","views":{"total":0,"cached_at":"","cached_date":1702950222},"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/214112","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/10317"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=214112"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/214112\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=214112"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=214112"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=214112"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}