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News Release For immediate release Contacts: In Bonn: Paul Boëffard, paul.boeffard@leave-it-in-the-ground.org, +33 6 87 57 78 19 In New York: Stephen Kent, skent@kentcom.com, +1 914 589 5988 In Los Angeles: Alice McGown, alice.mcgown@leave-it-in-the-ground.org, +1 936 615 3380 Global Campaign to “Pull the Methane Emergency Brake” Launched at Bonn Climate Summit [Bonn, Germany -- June 16, 2025] At a press conference today at the UNFCCC’s Climate Summit in Bonn, Germany, NGOs, scientists, and climate advocates launched a global campaign to “Pull the Methane Emergency Brake.” It calls for deep, rapid, mandatory cuts in methane emissions as the fastest, most impactful way ...

Source: Methane Action www.methaneaction.org NEWS RELEASE Contacts: In Sharm el-Shiekh: Daphne Wysham, daphne@methaneaction.org, +1 503 310 7042 In Paris: Durwood Zaelke, zaelke@igsd.org, +1-202-498-2457 In New York: Stephen Kent, skent@kentcom.com +1 914 589 5988 [Sharm el-Sheikh, Egypt – November 17, 2022] At the COP27 climate summit, NGOs and scientists are calling on delegates to specify concrete steps for cutting methane emissions, and for stepped up development of methane removal technologies. Today, as the Global Methane Pledge ministerial meeting reviewed the first year of voluntary progress towards cutting methane emissions 30% by 2030, climate groups called for a mandatory Global Methane Agreement ...

As important as decarbonization will be post-2050, it is essential to couple it with a strategy to immediately cut methane and the other short-lived super climate pollutants, as this can avoid four times more warming at mid-century than decarbonization alone can.... 40 to 50 percent of methane emissions are from natural sources, including tropical wetlands, peatlands and Arctic permafrost, all of which appear to be increasing as part of self-reinforcing climate feedbacks. There are promising strategies for tackling these emissions by removing methane from the atmosphere faster than the natural cycle, justifying a robust research and development effort. Read the ...

Source: Methane Action www.methaneaction.org NEWS RELEASE For immediate release Contact: Stephen Kent, skent@kentcom.com +1 914 589 5988 At the COP27 Climate Summit Expert Sources Offer Intel And Interviews on Addressing the Methane Emergency [Sharm el-Sheikh, Egypt – November 9, 2022] Leading experts on methane issues who are attending the COP27 climate summit can offer intelligence, insights, and on-the-ground interviews on how the meeting is addressing the methane emergency. Among those available from COP27 are Daphne Wysham, CEO of Methane Action, Durwood Zaelke, President, and Zerin Osho, India Climate Law and Policy Specialist, IGSDInstitute for Governance & Sustainable Development, Stephan Singer, ...

In addition to climate reparations, the developed world also needs to put resources into climate restoration, so loss and damage don’t keep compounding beyond all possible compensation. Methane should be a primary focus of that effort. Given its outsized warming effect and its skyrocketing accumulation in the atmosphere, it’s the most powerful lever we have for lowering global temperatures and preventing some of the worst climate impacts. Read the full article in The Hill ...

If the warming Earth is already starting to release more methane, then this vicious cycle — in which warming triggers more warming — could become self-perpetuating. Although that moment could still be decades in the future, once that tipping point is reached, it will be very hard to reverse. Anticipating this, some groups are starting to study methane removal — whether there might be ways to pull methane directly from the air. While mostly hypothetical at this point, the ideas include increasing the amount of chemical sinks in the atmosphere, for example by adding tiny iron-oxide particles to the air ...

Last year, the world-renowned former science advisor to the U.K., Sir David King of Cambridge University, declared we have five years left to solve the climate crisis and announced a new Climate Crisis Advisory Group to help reduce emissions, remove greenhouse gases already emitted and restore the climate to truly healthy temperatures and functioning. Read more in the embedded document below. June 30, 2022 a.m. Methane Action-RTE Testimony for the State-Foreign Ops SubcommitteeDownload ...

Abstract Mitigating climate change requires a diverse portfolio of technologies and approaches, including negative emissions or removal of greenhouse gases. Previous literature focuses primarily on carbon dioxide removal, but methane removal may be an important complement to future efforts. Methane removal has at least two key benefits: reducing temperature more rapidly than carbon dioxide removal and improving air quality by reducing surface ozone concentration. While some removal technologies are being developed, modelling of their impacts is limited. Here, we conduct the first simulations using a methane emissions-driven Earth System Model to quantify the climate and air quality co-benefits of methane ...

Abstract Atmospheric methane removal (e.g. in situ methane oxidation to carbon dioxide) may be needed to offset continued methane release and limit the global warming contribution of this potent greenhouse gas. Because mitigating most anthropogenic emissions of methane is uncertain this century, and sudden methane releases from the Arctic or elsewhere cannot be excluded, technologies for methane removal or oxidation may be required. Carbon dioxide removal has an increasingly well-established research agenda and technological foundation. No similar framework exists for methane removal. We believe that a research agenda for negative methane emissions—‘removal' or atmospheric methane oxidation—is needed. We outline some ...

Abstract Fulfilling the Paris Climate Agreement requires reducing rapidly the new emissions of greenhouse gases (GHGs) to reach net zero by 2050. As some anthropogenic emissions cannot be zero, to compensate them it will be necessary to remove GHGs from the atmosphere. Among possible methods, the Iron Salt Aerosol (ISA) offers new possibilities, including removal of methane and several other GHGs, as well as carbon dioxide. Several studies suggest that anthropogenic emissions of iron participate in the current primary productivity. As plans to decarbonize the world economy might also have inadvertent warming effects due to the reduction of iron emissions ...