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The new Global Methane Pledge can buy time while the world drastically reduces fossil fuel use

  • Written by Jeff Nesbit, Research Affiliate, Yale Program on Climate Change Communications, Yale University
imageU.S. President Joe Biden and Special Presidential Envoy for Climate John Kerry spoke at the announcement of the Global Methane Pledge.AP Photo/Evan Vucci

There were four big announcements during the first week of COP26, the U.N. climate conference in Glasgow: on coal, finance, methane and deforestation. Of those four, the global methane pledge...

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