Methane Action’s mission is to work with partners in science, government and civil society to rapidly achieve a fair and binding global methane agreement that dramatically reduces anthropogenic methane emissions in line with a 1.5 degree Celsius global warming upper limit.
Vision: Methane Action’s long-term vision is to quickly restore atmospheric concentrations of methane to pre-industrial levels for the benefit of present and future generations while safeguarding human and planetary wellbeing.
Today, despite the fact that over 150 countries have signed up to the Global Methane Pledge and promised to cut their methane emissions to 30 percent below 1990 levels by 2030, methane emissions continue to rise. We need a binding Global Methane Agreement that will result in actual emissions cuts that are deep and rapid enough to lower atmospheric methane concentrations and head off some of the worst effects of climate change in the next few decades. Barbados Prime Minister and incoming Chair of the Climate Vulnerable Forum Mia Motley called for such an Agreement at COP28 in December 2023. We have been calling for one since our founding in 2020.
Methane Action and its board of advisors is working to educate and empower a global network of advocate who will hold governments accountable to their pledges and strengthen them, working to reduce anthropogenic methane emissions from all sources by at least 45% (75% in the oil and gas sectors) by 2030.
We envision a near future in which the methane emergency and the imperative for acting on it are widely understood, the science and technology for monitoring and tracking methane emissions globally is advanced, and the necessary social engagement, communications, policy, governance, and oversight frameworks for rapidly reducing anthropogenic methane emissions is in place. We must reduce fossil fuel methane emissions by about 75 percent and all manmade methane emissions by at least 45 percent below 2020 levels by 2030 if we are to meet our globally agreed upon climate targets and begin restoring atmospheric methane levels from the current dangerous concentration of 1900+ parts per billion to its preindustrial level.
Methane Action’s mission and vision are aligned with the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC) Paris Agreement target of keeping global warming to well below a rise of 2 degrees Celsius, and preferably below 1.5 degrees Celsius rise in temperatures and specifically with the United Nations’ Environment Programme’s Emissions Gap Report of 2022.
We are a project of the 501 C-3 nonprofit, Government Accountability Project.