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Baroness Sheehan (LD)

Speaking in the House of Lords on 28 October 2025

Debate

Offshore Oil and Gas: Venting and Flaring

Contribution

My Lords, I declare my interest as chair of the Environment and Climate Change Committee, which last year produced a report on methane. Methane is responsible for a full third of the global warming we see today, but it behaves very differently from carbon dioxide because it is much shorter lived. Therefore, if we can reduce methane emissions rapidly, we can start to cool the planet within a decade or two. Given that the Secretary of State for DESNZ has accepted that credible UK leadership on methane needs a methane action plan, when will we see it?

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