The world's major oil and gas companies have mostly vowed to stop leaking the extremely potent greenhouse gas methane into the atmosphere, but big loopholes in their pledges risk "exacerbating the ...

Last year, 50 oil companies representing nearly half of global production signed a pledge to nearly eliminate methane emissions and end the routine burning off of the gas in their operations by 2030.

Methane is responsible for about one-third of global warming from greenhouse gases ... to climate action while emissions from their products are fuelling increasingly severe storms, droughts ...