The world’s leading liquefied natural gas (LNG) importers and a coterie of key market players on Wednesday released separate frameworks aimed at better tracking and reporting greenhouse gas emissions (GHG) associated with cargoes of the super-chilled fuel.

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The International Group of LNG Importers (GIIGNL), which handles 90% of all such imports worldwide, unveiled a framework setting out the criteria for both reporting and offsetting emissions associated with cargoes. It comes as so-called carbon-neutral deliveries are in high demand and on the rise. Separately, Pavilion Energy Trading & Supply Pte. Ltd., Qatar Energy (QE) and Chevron Corp. released a methodology for quantifying and reporting the GHG emissions of delivered LNG cargoes. 

The trio’s framework would be the first...