Some of the world’s biggest natural gas exporters and importers will craft a framework for measuring, monitoring and verifying the emissions of methane across the fuel’s supply chain under an international working group the Biden administration announced Wednesday.

The formal effort was unveiled hours after European Union negotiators agreed on a plan to limit methane emissions from imported oil and gas. It also comes weeks before the COP28 climate summit, where methane will be a key issue. Sultan Al Jaber, the summit’s president, is seeking to push oil and gas companies to make an array of climate commitments, including reducing methane emissions and ending gas flaring.