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US seeks to curb nitrous oxide emissions in new phase of effort to curb climate change
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Tue, 2024-07-23 11:19 — mike kraft
US targets nitrous oxide in new phase of climate fight The Biden administration on Tuesday announced it would seek to curb U.S. emissions of powerful industrial greenhouse gases such as nitrous oxide as it enters a new phase in the national strategy to fight climate change under the Paris agreement. Reuters
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"Most of the discussion of climate change focuses on carbon dioxide, but super pollutants like methane and nitrous oxide cause half of the climate change we're experiencing today," said John Podesta, Senior Adviser to the President for International Climate Policy.
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Possible China Climate agreement and nitrous oxide control
Biden Administration Targets Domestic Emissions of Climate Super-Pollutant With Eye Toward U.S.-China Climate Agreement - Inside Climate News
WASHINGTON, D.C.—The first details of a potential, and possibly massive, climate agreement between the U.S. and China were announced at a climate summit at the White House on Tuesday.
The initiative could significantly reduce emissions of nitrous oxide, a potent and largely overlooked greenhouse gas that also harms the ozone layer. Targeting this N2O pollution from a limited number of chemical plants in the two countries offers an opportunity to quickly reduce a large volume of greenhouse gas emissions at little cost.
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