24 countries have agreed to join the pact led by the United States and the European Union to reduce the strong greenhouse gas methane.

According to dpa news and the Washington Post, European Union (EU) deputy chairman Frans Thimermanns and US climate envoy John Kerry held an online meeting in Brussels, Belgium on the 11th (local time), after which the number of countries joining the 'International Methane Pact' increased. said.

Under existing plans, these member countries will reduce their methane emissions by at least 30% compared to 2020 by 2030.

"Reducing methane emissions quickly is the only effective way to limit global temperature rise to 1.5 degrees Celsius," said Special Envoy Kerry and Deputy Executive Chairman Timermans.

Through the Paris Agreement on Climate Change in 2015, the international community promised to make efforts to limit the increase in global average temperature to 1.5 degrees Celsius or less compared to pre-industrial levels by 2100.

Methane is the second most abundant greenhouse gas after carbon dioxide, but has a much stronger warming property than carbon dioxide in a short time.

These greenhouse gases are emitted into the atmosphere from natural gas, landfills, livestock farms, and melting permafrost.

According to the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC), methane has been responsible for about half of the 1 degree increase in global average temperature since the Industrial Revolution.

The new signatories to the pact are Germany, Canada, France, Japan, Nigeria and Pakistan. Nine countries, including the United States, the EU, the United Kingdom, and Argentina, have already pledged to pledge.

Earlier, President Joe Biden urged world leaders to join the pledge, saying that he would announce the International Methane Pledge at the 26th Conference of the Parties (COP26) to the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (COP26) to be held in Glasgow, UK at the end of this month.

This time, 24 countries agreed to join the pledge, bringing nine of the world's top 20 methane emitters to the pledge.

However, the three largest methane emitters, China, Russia and India, have not yet expressed their intention to pledge.

Experts predict that if the 'International Methane Pledge' works successfully, it could reduce global temperature rise by about 0.2 degrees Celsius by the 2040s, the Washington Post reported.

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