Reuters: The US and the EU want to eliminate some of the global methane gas emissions.The plan would limit climate change

The United States Pact and the European Union comes in the context in which Washington and Brussels want to convince other great savings before a Glasgow summit in which climate change in November will be addressed, with potential significant impact on energy industries., Agriculture and waste, responsible for most of the methane emissions.

Metan is a greenhouse gas and represents the second cause, after carbon dioxide, for climate change.Governments are looking for solutions to limit global warming to 1.5 degrees Celsius, an objective of the Paris climatic agreement.

This week, the US and the EU will make a common promise on reducing human -caused methane emissions by at least 30% by 2030, compared to the levels of 2020, according to a document of the global commitment for methane, seen by Reuters.

The document writes that methane has a "short life" in the atmosphere and that "the rating of action can now reduce the rate of global warming".

A separate document lists the countries that the US and the EU want to include in the commitment.They included states that emit significant amounts of methane, such as China, Russia, India, Brazil and Saudi Arabia, as well as Norway, Qatar, UK, New Zealand and South Africa.

What are the solutions

Methane has a greater greenhouse effect than CO2 but breaks down faster in the atmosphere.Thus, "strong, fast and supported reductions" in methane emissions, in addition to diminishing carbon dioxide, it can have a faster climate impact, fact underlined by a report of Paneluluo intergovernmental on climate change, published last month..

Experts argue that the fossil fuel sector has the greatest potential to cut from methane emissions by rapping the gases, these solutions are often available at a low cost.