World Methane Pledge: From Second to Momentum

This truth sheet is being collectively launched by the USA and European Union as co-conveners of the World Methane Pledge. 

Unprecedented Momentum for Retaining 1.5°C Inside Attain whereas Advancing Power Safety, Meals Safety, and Sustainable Improvement

Reaching the World Methane Pledge (GMP) objective of reducing anthropogenic methane emissions at the least 30 p.c by 2030 from 2020 ranges is the quickest solution to scale back near-term warming and is critical to maintain a 1.5°C temperature restrict inside attain.  Reaching this objective will drive important vitality safety, meals safety, well being, and growth positive factors.

Within the yr because it launched at COP26, the World Methane Pledge has generated unprecedented momentum for methane motion.  Nation endorsements of the GMP have grown from simply over 100 final yr to 150, greater than 50 nations have developed nationwide methane motion plans or are within the strategy of doing so, substantial new monetary assets are being directed to methane motion, and companions have launched “pathways” of insurance policies and initiatives to drive methane reductions in key methane-emitting sectors – a GMP Power Pathway launched on the June 2022 Main Economies Discussion board on Power and Local weather and a GMP Meals and Agriculture Pathway and GMP Waste Pathway, each launched at this time at COP27.

The US and European Union convened a Methane Ministerial at COP27 at this time to focus on this progress and talk about additional implementation steps, together with enhanced efforts main as much as COP28.

Progress on the GMP Power Pathway

In June 2022, the USA, European Union, and 11 different nations launched the GMP Power Pathway to speed up methane emissions reductions within the fossil vitality sector, cleansing up our near-term fossil vitality consumption as a necessary complement to the clear vitality transition.  Current developments within the Power Pathway embody: 

• Uniting importers and exporters to chop fossil vitality methane: The US, European Union, Japan, Canada, Norway, Singapore, and the UK issued a Joint Declaration from Power Importers and Exporters on Decreasing Greenhouse Gasoline Emissions from Fossil Fuels, committing to working in direction of the creation of a global marketplace for fossil vitality that minimizes flaring, methane, and CO₂ emissions throughout the worth chain to the fullest extent practicable. This Declaration covers over half of worldwide gasoline import volumes and over one-third of worldwide gasoline manufacturing.

• Leveraging satellite tv for pc information to reply to super-emitter sources: The UNEP Worldwide Methane Emissions Observatory (IMEO), a core implementing companion of the GMP, launched the Methane Alert and Response System (MARS)  to scale up detection of main emission occasions, notify related stakeholders, and help and observe mitigation progress.

• Mobilizing multilateral funding for methane motion: The World Financial institution World Gasoline Flaring Discount Partnership will launch the following part of its belief fund in 2023 to turn into the World Flaring and Methane Discount (GFMR) Partnership and handle all methane emissions throughout the oil and gasoline worth chain.

New Landmark Nationwide Insurance policies and Actions:

• The United States printed a supplemental proposal on lowering dangerous emissions and vitality waste that may obtain 87 p.c reductions in methane emissions from lined sources by 2030 from 2005 ranges and also will embody the creation of a “tremendous emitter response program.” That is complemented by $1.55 billion in monetary and technical help from the U.S. Environmental Safety Company and a “waste emissions cost.

• Nigeria grew to become the primary African nation to manage methane emissions from its oil and gasoline sector.

• Colombia grew to become the primary South American nation to manage methane emissions from its oil and gasoline sector. At COP27, Colombia additionally endorsed the World Methane Pledge Power Pathway.

• Ecuador finalized laws to help achievement of zero routine flaring commitments and to close down all flares positioned close to human settlements.

• Canada has printed its proposed regulatory framework to realize at the least a 75 p.c discount from the oil and gasoline sector by 2030 relative to 2012.

• In Mexico, PEMEX will develop and launch a plan for methane and flaring discount actions by the primary half of 2023, with technical help from the U.S. Environmental Safety Company.

• Malaysia’s nationwide oil firm and regulator, PETRONAS, introduced a goal to scale back methane emissions 50 p.c by 2025, in addition to its participation within the Oil and Gasoline Methane Partnership 2.0. 

• Egypt has launched an Oil and Gasoline Methane Roadmap framework with core parts of a complete methane discount strategy, and can full a particular Oil and Gasoline Methane Roadmap for Egypt in 2023.

New GMP Meals and Agriculture Pathway

Launched at this time, the GMP Meals and Agriculture Pathway advances local weather and meals safety targets via new actions that enhance agricultural productiveness, scale back meals loss and waste, and enhance the viability of agriculture sooner or later.  Preliminary elements of the GMP Meals and Agriculture Pathway embody: 

• Boosting Assist for Smallholder Farmers: The Inexperienced Local weather Fund, in partnership with the Worldwide Fund for Agricultural Improvement (IFAD), the Meals and Agriculture Group, World Dairy Platform and World Methane Hub, accredited  $3.5 million of mission preparation funding with the target of leveraging as much as $400 million in financing that may assist transition dairy programs to decrease emission, local weather resilient pathways in Kenya, Rwanda, Tanzania and Uganda. Costa Rica, Uruguay, Colombia, Pakistan, and Vietnam are planning to organize comparable packages via a partnership with Pathways to Dairy Web Zero. IFAD and United States introduced  a partnership to advance local weather resilience and methane mitigation with smallholder farmers together with by prioritizing methane mitigation in IFAD’s pipeline of nation and regional tasks with mixed funding of over $500 million {dollars} in methane-emitting sectors.  As well as, the USA has introduced $5 million for the African Improvement Financial institution to advance agriculture and waste methane work throughout the Africa Local weather Change Fund.

• Rising Innovation: The World Methane Hub introduced elevating $70 million in help for a brand new Enteric Methane Analysis and Improvement Accelerator to advance crucial analysis on lowering methane emissions from enteric fermentation—the most important single supply of methane emissions from agriculture—and has a $200 million fundraising objective by the primary quarter of 2023. Underneath the Agricultural Innovation Mission for Local weather (AIM4C), seven methane innovation sprints have been launched associated to each livestock and rice methane mitigation with whole present funding of $123 million.

• Highlighting Formidable Nationwide Actions: The United States Division of Agriculture is investing over $500 million in methane discount tasks through Partnerships for Local weather Good Commodities, as much as $90 million for home meals loss and waste discount, and final yr supported dozens of anaerobic digester tasks and a broader vary of methane-reducing investments via over $64 million in further grants and assured loans. Within the European Union, the brand new Frequent Agricultural Coverage beginning in 2023 will increase the emphasis on local weather motion, together with methane from livestock.  In whole, 40 p.c of the funds shall be devoted to climate-related measures, together with improved guidelines and monitoring necessities, and quantitative targets to scale back meals waste, amongst others. The EU has additionally printed a Biomethane Actions Plan with the objective of doubling manufacturing to succeed in 35 billion cubic meters by 2030.

New GMP Waste Pathway

Waste is answerable for roughly 20 p.c of worldwide methane emissions from human actions, and dramatically scaling up efforts to scale back these emissions can ship essential well being and financial growth advantages. Launched at this time, the GMP Waste Pathway will focus initially on lowering emissions throughout the strong waste worth chain, from upstream sources to downstream disposal websites.  Preliminary elements of the GMP Waste Pathway embody:

• Enhancing Measurement and Monitoring: Carbon Mapper will use airborne and space-based devices to develop a worldwide waste sector methane baseline evaluation of over 10,000 landfills and dumpsites. RMI and Clear Air Job Pressure will develop an open-source Waste Methane Evaluation Platform with waste sector data to drive methane motion. And the Inter-American Improvement Financial institution Group (IDB) is growing a Waste Information Hub for Latin America and the Caribbean.

• Scaling up Subnational Motion: SCALE-Methane, a brand new initiative of the Subnational Local weather Motion Leaders’ Change, will help accelerated subnational motion on waste methane. This work will complement the Pathway In the direction of Zero Waste joined by 13 cities on the October 2022 C40 World Mayors Summit. 

• Decreasing Meals Loss and Waste: To advance each the GMP Waste Pathway and the GMP Meals and Agriculture Pathway, a Meals Waste Administration Accelerator will develop methane mitigation tasks in 10 nations in Latin America and the Caribbean, the World Meals Banking Community will launch a brand new effort to quantify and observe meals banking methane mitigation, the IDB mission #SinDesperdicio is creating tasks to scale back meals loss, and a brand new USAID Meals Loss and Waste Partnerships Facility will scale efforts in Bangladesh, Kenya, Nepal, Niger, Nigeria, and/or Tanzania.

• Regional Platforms: The IDB is funding tasks with a excessive impression on methane discount throughout totally different nations in Latin America and the Caribbean and shall be launching the Too Good to Waste facility to implement waste tasks associated to methane mitigation.

• Mobilizing Funding: A number of of the initiatives outlined above will concentrate on eradicating boundaries to and scaling up funding in waste methane abatement. Assist for the actions within the GMP Waste Pathway comes from, inter alia, the Authorities of Canada, the U.S. authorities, the African Improvement Financial institution, the Inter-American Improvement Financial institution, the World Methane Hub, the Grantham Basis for the Safety of the Surroundings, and Bloomberg Philanthropies. 

Progress on Nationwide Methane Planning

Nationwide methane targets and insurance policies, in standalone motion plans and/or as a part of Nationally Decided Contributions (NDCs), are crucial to reaching the World Methane Pledge.

• With current commitments by a number of nations, 95 p.c of NDCs now embody methane or will by their subsequent revision. As well as, greater than 70 GMP-endorsing nations embody focused methane discount measures of their NDCs.

• Greater than 50 nations have methane motion plans or are working to develop one. Since COP26, the European Union has issued a methane motion plan protecting its 27 member states and nationwide methane plans have been launched by Brazil, Canada, Finland, Netherlands, Norway, Sweden, the UK, and the USA (an replace to its 2021 plan), and Vietnam.  Bangladesh, Côte d’Ivoire, Morocco, and Nigeria have included sturdy methane elements of their Quick-Lived Local weather Pollutant nationwide motion plans. Chile introduced its intent to speed up methane reductions.  Belgium, Cameroon, Colombia, Croatia, Estonia, Ghana, Liberia, Mali, Malta, and Togo have indicated their intent to organize a nationwide methane motion plan by COP28, at the least 9 different nations have begun growing a plan, and Mexico is planning methane discount actions below the World Methane Pledge.

• These plans embody main new insurance policies and initiatives: Highlights from these motion plans embody proposed strengthened laws to scale back oil and gasoline methane emissions, a methane “waste emissions cost” per ton of methane emitted for relevant oil and gasoline amenities that exceed statutorily specified waste emissions thresholds, and the deployment of $20 billion of recent investments in methane reductions by the USA; a complete set of methane-reducing measures by the European Union; Canada’s objective of lowering economy-wide methane emissions over 35 p.c by 2030; and Vietnam’s objective of lowering methane 30 p.c by 2030 accompanied by a variety of insurance policies and measures.

• Assist for continued nationwide planning and implementation: The Local weather and Clear Air Coalition (CCAC), a core implementing companion of the GMP, has launched a Methane Roadmap Motion Program and can mobilize over $10 million in 2023 to help nationwide planning and insurance policies, sector-specific and nation specific-mitigation wants, and nationwide capability constructing and institutional strengthening for short-lived local weather pollutant mitigation. In 2022, the CCAC accredited methane-related help for 27 nations. And the World Methane Initiative, a partnership of 46 nations and tons of of personal sector and non-governmental companions, continues to develop and disseminate technical assets and share experience straight geared toward methane mitigation from key sectors.

Foundational Information and Science to Underpin Methane Motion

Since COP26, CCAC and UNEP IMEO have continued to make strides in growing foundational science and actionable information.  The UNEP/CCAC World Methane Evaluation 2030: Baseline Report  underscores the GMP’s potential to ship cooling advantages a lot sooner than decarbonization alone and finds that world methane emissions are projected to rise as much as 13 p.c by 2030 below a business-as-usual state of affairs.  CCAC is making accessible nation Methane Profiles to tell nationwide motion plan and roadmap processes.  The Oil and Gasoline Methane Partnership 2.0  now contains 60 member corporations on its “Gold Normal” pathway for sequentially bettering the standard of reported information, which is crucial to drive credible methane reductions.  Moreover, UNEP IMEO continues to fund and coordinate scientific methane measurement research throughout jurisdictions and is on the market to work with GMP-endorsing nations on multi-scale measurement research that may inform baselines of methane emission throughout sectors and information reductions.

Nations Endorsing the World Methane Pledge

The next have endorsed the World Methane Pledge (* denotes endorsed since COP26):

Albania, Andorra, Antigua and Barbuda*, Argentina, Armenia, Australia*, Austria*, Bahrain*, Bangladesh*, Barbados, Belgium, Belize, Benin, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Brazil, Bulgaria, Burkina Faso, Cambodia*, Cameroon, Cabo Verde*, Canada, Central African Republic, Chad*, Chile, Colombia, Cook dinner Islands*, Comoros*, Costa Rica, Cote D’Ivoire, Croatia, Cuba*, Cyprus, Czech Republic*, Democratic Republic of Congo, Denmark, Djibouti, Dominica*, Dominican Republic, Ecuador, Egypt*, El Salvador, Equatorial Guinea*, Estonia, Eswatini*, Ethiopia, European Union, Federated States of Micronesia, Fiji, Finland, France, Gabon, Gambia, Georgia, Germany, Ghana, Greece, Grenada, Guinea*, Guyana, Haiti*, Honduras, Iceland, Indonesia, Iraq, Eire, Israel, Italy, Jamaica, Japan, Jordan, Kosovo*, Kuwait, Kyrgyzstan, Lebanon*, Lesotho*, Liberia, Libya, Liechtenstein*, Luxembourg, Malawi, Malaysia*, Mali, Malta, Marshall Islands, Mauritania*, Mexico, Moldova*, Monaco, Mongolia*, Montenegro, Morocco , Mozambique*, Namibia*, Nauru, Nepal, Netherlands, New Zealand, Niger*, Nigeria, Niue, North Macedonia, Norway, Oman*, Pakistan, Palau, Panama, Papua New Guinea, Peru, Philippines, Portugal, Qatar*, Republic of Korea, Republic of the Congo, Rwanda, Saint Lucia*, Samoa*, San Marino*, São Tomé and Príncipe*, Saudi Arabia, Senegal, Serbia, Seychelles*, Sierra Leone*, Singapore, Slovakia*, Slovenia, Solomon Islands*, Somalia*, Spain, Sri Lanka*, St. Kitts & Nevis, Sudan*, Suriname, Sweden, Switzerland, Timor Leste*, Togo, Tonga, Trinidad & Tobago*, Tunisia, Tuvalu*, Ukraine, United Arab Emirates, United Kingdom, United States, Uruguay, Uzbekistan*, Vanuatu, Vietnam, Yemen*, Zambia