COP27: More countries join methane pact as focus turns to farms and waste

SHARM EL-SHEIKH, Egypt, Nov 17 (Reuters) – More than 150 countries have now signed up to a global pact to reduce methane emissions, some 50 more than signed on when the initiative launched last year, the United States and European Union announced on Thursday.

The pledge to cut emissions of the powerful greenhouse gas 30% this decade is seen as critical to global efforts to limit planetary warming to 1.5 degrees Celsius, a threshold scientists…