Methane Action Team Members

Daphne Wysham is the Chief Executive Officer of Methane Action.  Starting in early 2021, in response to the methane emergency, she and her team at Methane Action campaigned for the need to curb rapidly rising sources of methane, a climate super-pollutant, via a just, binding global methane agreement. Such an agreement would require deeper reductions than the current Global Methane Pledge, announced in November 2021, under which over 150 nations agreeing to voluntarily curb their methane emissions by 30% below 2020 levels by 2030. The global methane agreement Methane Action advocates would far exceed those targets, which could be reached by scaling up innovative ways of ...

Nnimmo Bassey is an architect, writer and director of the ecological think-tank, Health of Mother Earth Foundation (HOMEF) based in Nigeria and member of the steering committee of Oilwatch International – a network resisting the expansion of fossil fuels extraction in the Global South. He chaired of Friends of the Earth International (2008-2012). He was a co-recipient of the 2010 Right Livelihood Award also known as the “Alternative Noble Prize.” In 2012 he received the Rafto Human Rights Award. Bassey received honorary doctorate degrees from University of York (UK) in 2019 and from York University (Canada) in 2023. Bassey’s books ...

Zerin Osho is the Director of the India Program at IGSD where she is leading the development and implementation of IGSD’s subnational work on fast mitigation of short-lived climate pollutants. She is focused on developing an investible project pipeline for fast mitigation of SLPCs by facilitating the development of supporting policies and the development of an investment framework. Prior to IGSD, Zerin was most recently seconded to the International Solar Alliance (ISA), where she served as a Coordinator the UN General Assembly and led the development and launch of ISA’s seventh work program on Solarizing Heating and Cooling Systems. Before ...

Dr Stephan Singer of Germany has worked for the Climate Action Network-International (CAN-I) secretariat since 2016. The CAN community has almost 2000 members in more than 130 countries composed of environmental, developmental, science, climate and social justice, faith, regional and local CSO. Stephan is Senior Advisor for CAN-I's Climate Science and Global Energy Policy. He is a regular external reviewer of the IPCC documents and the IEA World Energy Outlook. Stephan works with his team on science-based policy in line with equity and a Just Transition for deep global emission reductions of 50% in this decade until 2030 in line ...

Dr. Rob Jackson is a member of the advisory board of Methane Action, and Michelle and Kevin Douglas Provostial Professor and senior fellow at the Woods Institute for the Environment at the Precourt Institute for Energy at Stanford University. He and his lab examine the many ways people affect the Earth. They seek basic scientific knowledge and use it to help shape policies and reduce the environmental footprint of global warming, energy extraction, and other issues. They're currently examining the effects of climate change and droughts on forest mortality and grassland ecosystems. They are also working to measure and reduce ...

Bill Drayton is a senior advisor and ambassador at large to Methane Action. A social entrepreneur with a long record of founding organizations and public service, Bill Drayton is the founder and CEO of Ashoka: Innovators for the Public. Bill has pioneered the field of social entrepreneurship, growing a global association of over 3,900 leading social entrepreneurs, Ashoka Fellows, who work together to create an ‘Everyone a Changemaker’ world. Ashoka Fellows bring big systems change to the world’s most urgent social challenges. Over half have changed national policy within five years of launch. As a student, he founded organizations ranging ...

After witnessing the 2017 Napa County fires engulf her community in flames, Methane Action Intern and Napa High School Senior Liliana Karesh was inspired to take action on climate change. She expanded her knowledge in the environmental field through her participation in the Sonoma Ecology Center EnviroLeaders summer program, completion of an internship for the Napa Resource Conservation District, and involvement in Jameson Humane's Leaders for Ethics, Animals, and Planet (LEAP) program. Currently, Liliana is co-president of the Napa Schools for Climate Action youth group, as well as an Intern for the Office of Congressman Mike Thompson and the Napa ...