However, delegates including Australia, the European Union, Norway, the United States and many Pacific Island nations were disappointed the deal didn't include a universal commitment to phase out fossil fuel use. As members of the Dairy Methane Action Alliance, the six dairy companies ' Danone, Bel Group, General Mills, Lactalis USA, Kraft Heinz and Nestle ' will start reporting their methane emissions by the middle of next year and prepare action plans to cut these emissions by the end of 2024. Methane emissions are almost 30 times more harmful than CO2 in terms of their potential to trap heat in the atmosphere, but they remain in the atmosphere for much less time, the US Environmental Protection Agency says. As such, curbing methane emissions provides an effective near-term method of tackling global warming. Methane is the primary contributor to the formation of ground-level ozone, a toxic air pollutant and greenhouse gas that causes 1 million premature deaths annually, according...
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