白宫
华盛顿哥伦比亚特区
2021年11月2日
拜登总统在展现《全球甲烷承诺》所取得的进展的活动上发表讲话
苏格兰会展中心（Scottish Event Campus）
苏格兰格拉斯哥（Glasgow）
格林尼治标准时间下午1时36分
总统：跟在乌尔苏拉（Ursula）后面太轻而易举了。我认为她第一次就讲得非常好。
我会非常简短。我想感谢乌尔苏拉。而且非常感谢今天在座的每一个人，感谢签署这项扭转形势的承诺。
我们能够做的最重要的事情之一——而且和你们很多人一样，我不断提到这个决定性的十年。我们必须清楚我们将做些什么。这不仅仅是从现在到2050年。我们从现在到2030年将要做些什么将对我们——我们是否将能履行我们更长远的承诺产生显著影响。
而且我们在这个决定性的十年所能做到的最重要的事情之一——保持1.5度有望实现——是尽可能迅速地削减我们的甲烷排放。
正如已经阐明的，它是最强效的温室气体之一。它造成了我们今天所经历的变暖的大约一半——仅仅是甲烷排放。
因此，我们正在共同承诺到2030年携手将我们的甲烷削减30%。而且我认为我们可能还可以超越于此。
我们于九月在联大会议（General Assembly）才宣布了这套方案。在这被提及时有九个国家签署。今天，已经超过80个国家了；正在签署的国家已经接近100个。这接近全球甲烷——甲烷排放量的一半——或占全球GDP的70%。
而且它——这将促成巨大的变化。不仅仅事关抗击气候变化，正如乌尔苏拉指出的——个人的身体健康以及所有各种其他事项。这将改善健康、减少哮喘及同呼吸系统有关的急症。这还将通过减少作物损失及相关的地表污染来改善粮食供给。而且这还将增强我们的经济、节省公司企业的开支、减少甲烷泄露、捕获甲烷并将其转化为新的收入来源，同时为我们的劳动者创造薪酬良好的有工会的就业机会。
而且我们正在采取——而且我们正在谈论开发新技术来检测甲烷的工作岗位；让有工会的管道安装工和焊接工去到废弃的油井进行封盖并堵住泄露管道，而它们有数千英里长。
这还一直是一个根基——我的政府从最开始就做出的根本性承诺。这是我们——我竞选时的主张。今天，我要宣布削减美国甲烷排放的接下来的举措。
我们正在提出两项新规则。第一项通过我们的环境保护署（Environmental Protection Agency），将减少新的和现有的油气管道中的甲烷损失。另一项通过运输部（Department of Transportation），减少天然气管道中造成浪费的、有可能危险的泄露。他们在该领域有管理权。
我们还在启动新的行动计划，同我们的农民和我们的牧民共同引入气候智能型农耕方式并减少农场上的甲烷，而这也是一个重要来源。
这些都是我们新的甲烷战略的组成部分，它着重于削减甲烷排放的最大来源，同时让数千名——数千名——有技术的劳动者在美国各地走上工作岗位，我预期在你们的国家也是这样。
因此，请让我在结束时再次强调，这不仅仅是我们为保护我们的环境和我们的未来而必须要做的，而且还是一个巨大的机遇——对于我们所有人、我们所有国家的巨大机遇，来创造就业机会，并将达到气候目标也作为我们的全球经济重建的一个核心部分。
美国渴望同你们每一位合作以确保我们达到这个目标，并鼓励更多的国家——更多的国家——同我们一道致力于在全球削减甲烷，因为还有更多国家能够而且应当加入。
因此，我想再次感谢你们。有很多话要讲，但很多话都已经讲过了。感谢你们的伙伴合作。感谢你们的雄心魄力。
现在，我要再交给克里国务卿（Secretary Kerry），我想是这样。他还在场吗？他在这里。
非常感谢你们大家。（掌声）
格林尼治标准时间下午1时41分
欲查看原稿内容: https://www.whitehouse.gov/briefing-room/speeches-remarks/2021/11/02/remarks-by-president-biden-at-an-event-highlighting-the-progress-of-the-global-methane-pledge/
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Remarks by President Biden at an Event Highlighting the Progress of the Global Methane Pledge
NOVEMBER 02, 2021•SPEECHES AND REMARKS
Scottish Event Campus
Glasgow, Scotland
1:36 P.M. GMT
THE PRESIDENT:  Well, it’s very easy to follow Ursula.  I think she says it all well the first time.
Look, I’m going to be very, very brief.  I want to thank Ursula.  And thank you so much to everyone here today, you know, for signing this game-changing commitment.
One of the most important things we can do — and I keep referring, as many of you do, to this decisive decade.  We’ve got to figure what we’re going to do.  It’s not just between now and 2050.  What we’re going to do between now and 2030 is going to impact significantly what we’ll — whether we’ll be able to meet our longer-term commitment.
And one of the most important things we can do in this decisive decade is — to keep 1.5 degrees in reach — is reduce our methane emissions as quickly as possible.
As has already been stated, it’s one of the most potent greenhouse gases there is.  It amounts to about half — half the warming we’re experiencing today — just the methane exposure.
So, together, we’re committing to collectively reduce our methane by 30 percent by 2030.  And I think we can probably go beyond that.
We just announced this package at the General Assembly back in September.  At the time, it was mentioned, nine countries had signed on.  Today, it’s over 80; it’s approaching 100 countries that are signing on.  That’s nearly half the global methane — methane emissions — or 70 percent of the global GDP.
And it’s not — this is going to make a huge difference.  And not just when it comes to fighting climate change, as Ursula pointed out — the physical health of individuals and a whole range of other things.  It’s going to improve health, reduce asthma, respiratory-related emergencies.  It’s going to improve the food supply as well by cutting crop losses and related ground-level pollution.  And it’s going to boost our economies, saving companies money, reducing methane leaks, capturing methane to turn it into new revenue streams, as well as creating good-paying union jobs for our workers.
And we’re taking — and we’re talking jobs to manufacture new technologies for methane detection; jobs for union pipefitters and welders to go out and cap abandoned oil wells and plug leaking pipelines, which there’s thousands of miles of those.
And it has been a foundation — the foundational commitment of my administration from the beginning.  It’s something that we — I campaigned on.  And today, I’m announcing the next steps to reduce U.S. methane emissions.
We’re proposing two new rules.  One through our Environmental Protection Agency that is going to reduce methane losses from new and existing oil and gas pipelines.  And one through the Department of Transportation to reduce wasteful and potential dangerous leaks from natural gas pipelines.  They have authority over that area.
We’re also launching new initiatives to work with our farmers and our ranchers to introduce climate-smart agriculture practices and reduce methane on farms, which is a significant source as well.
And this is all part of our new methane strategy, which focuses on reducing the largest source of methane emissions while putting thousands — thousands — of skilled workers on the job all across the United States and, I expect, in your countries as well.
So, let me close again by reiterating this isn’t just something we have to do to protect our environment and our future, it’s an enormous opportunity — enormous opportunity for all of us, all of our nations to create jobs and make meeting climate goals a core part of our global economic recovery as well.
The United States is eager to work with each of you to make sure we meet this goal and encourage more countries — more countries — to join us in committing to reducing methane globally, because there are more that can join and should.
So, I want to thank you again.  Much more to say, but much of it has already been said.  But thank you for your partnership.  Thank you for your ambition.
And now I’m going to turn it back to Secretary Kerry, I believe.  He’s still here?  There he is.
And I thank you all so very much.  (Applause.)
1:41 P.M. GMT