Asian LNG Buyers Launch Methane Reduction Scheme

摘要

Two of Asia's largest LNG buyers have launched an initiative backed by LNG producing and consuming governments to reducemethane emissions. The Coalition for LNG Emission Abatement Towards Net-Zero (Clean) was unveiled in Tokyo on Tuesday byJapan's largest buyer Jera and South Korea's largest buyer Korea Gas (Kogas) during the LNG Producer-Consumer conferenceorganized by the Japanese government. The private-public initiative has the support of the governments of Japan, South Korea, Australia and the US, whose representativessigned a framework agreement for creating a mechanism to monitor methane emissions.