Canada and the United States have agreed to take joint steps to fight climate change, including cutting methane emissions from the oil and gas industry and signing the Paris climate deal "as soon as feasible," the White House said on Thursday.
The agreement comes ahead of an Oval Office meeting between Prime Minister Justin Trudeau and U.S. President Barack
Obama at the White House.
The countries committed to cutting emissions of methane, a powerful greenhouse gas, by 40 to 45 per cent below 2012 levels by 2025, to take steps to fight climate change in the Arctic, and to speed development of green technologies, it added.
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