RIL, 9 global oil majors commit to cut green house gases

New Delhi: Reliance Industries as well as nine other global oil and gas companies on October 16 committed to strengthening actions and investments to reduce green house gases intensity of the global energy mix.

The chief executive officers of 10 of the world's largest oil and gas companies - which together provide almost a fifth of all oil and gas production and supply nearly 10 per cent of the world's energy - declared their collective support for an effective climate change agreement to be reached at next month's 21st session of the United Nations (UN) Conference of Parties to the UN Framework on Climate Change (COP21).

In their milestone declaration, they recognised the general ambition to limit global average temperature rise to 2 degrees centigrade and that the existing trend of the world’s net global greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions is not consistent with this ambition.

"The member companies have taken significant actions to reduce their GHG footprint, with combined GHG emissions from their operations reducing by around 20 per cent over the past 10 years," according to a joint declaration.

In their declaration the 10 CEOs said: "Our shared ambition is for a 2 degrees centigrade future. It is a challenge for the whole of society. We are committed to playing our part. Over the coming years we will collectively strengthen our actions and investments to contribute to reducing the GHG intensity of the global energy mix. Our companies will collaborate in a number of areas, with the aim of going beyond the sum of our individual efforts."