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Australia sits out Biden push to cut methane emissions

Hans van Leeuwen
Hans van LeeuwenEurope correspondent

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Glasgow | The Morrison government has refused to join US President Joe Biden’s initiative to cut methane emissions by 30 per cent this decade, even as more than 100 other countries backed the plan at the Glasgow COP26 summit on Wednesday.

Mr Biden told world leaders who joined him to launch the Global Methane Pledge that “one of the most important things we can do” to prevent global warming exceeding 1.5 degrees Celsius was “to reduce methane emissions as quickly as possible”.

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Hans van Leeuwen covers British and European politics, economics and business from London. He has worked as a reporter, editor and policy adviser in Sydney, Canberra, Hanoi and London. Connect with Hans on Twitter. Email Hans at hans.vanleeuwen@afr.com

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