President of Turkmenistan Serdar Berdimuhamedov today signed a Decree, in accordance with which the Intersectoral Commission for the Reduction of Methane Emissions was established, as well as the composition of the above-mentioned commission and its Regulations were approved, the Watan news program of the Turkmen television reported.
The document was signed "in order to strengthen, within the framework of the National Strategy of Turkmenistan on Climate Change, control over the effectiveness of work to systematically reduce the volume of greenhouse gases, and mainly methane emissions, arising in various sectors of the economy."