Highlights
About the Global Methane Pledge
Methane is a powerful but short-lived climate pollutant that accounts for a third of net warming since the Industrial Revolution. Rapidly reducing methane emissions from energy, agriculture, and waste can achieve near-term gains in our efforts in this decade for decisive action and is regarded as the single most effective strategy to keep the goal of limiting warming to 1.5˚C within reach while yielding co-benefits, including improving public health and agricultural productivity.
The Global Methane Pledge (GMP) was launched at COP26 by the European Union and the United States who have been joined by many countries. In March 2024, GMP counted 158 participants.
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Participants joining the Pledge agree to take voluntary actions to contribute to a collective effort to reduce global methane emissions at least 30 percent from 2020 levels by 2030. This is a global, not a national reduction target.
With 158 country participants, representing a little over 50% of global anthropogenic methane emissions, we are well on our way to achieving the Pledge goal.
Meeting the GMP would reduce methane emissions to a level consistent with 1.5°C pathways while delivering significant benefits for human and ecosystem health, food security and our economies. It has the potential to reduce warming by at least 0.2 °C by 2050 and prevent annually 26 million tons of crop losses, 255,000 premature deaths, 775 thousand asthma-related hospitalizations and 73 billion hours of lost labour due to extreme heat.
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Participants to the Pledge also commit to moving towards using the highest tier IPCC good practice inventory methodologies, as well as working to continuously improve the accuracy, transparency, consistency, comparability, and completeness of national greenhouse gas inventory reporting under the UNFCCC and Paris Agreement, and to provide greater transparency in key sectors.
The Pledge aims to catalyze global action and strengthen support for existing international methane emission reduction initiatives to advance technical and policy work that will serve to underpin Participants’ domestic actions. The Pledge also recognizes the essential roles that the private sector, development banks, financial institutions and philanthropy play in supporting the implementation of the Pledge and welcomes their efforts and engagement.
The Climate and Clean Air Coalition provides secretariat services to the GMP.
The Imperative for Methane Action
Drastic methane emissions reductions – alongside decarbonisation of our economies – need to happen before 2030 to keep the 1.5°C warming limit within reach.
While methane has a much shorter lifetime than carbon dioxide (CO2), it is much more efficient at trapping radiation. Per unit of mass, methane has a warming effect about 80 times more potent than CO2 over 20 years. Methane has been responsible for 30% of total warming since the Industrial Revolution and is the second largest contributor to global warming after carbon dioxide (CO2). Without action, global anthropogenic methane emissions are projected to rise by up to 13% between 2020 and 2030.
Pledges
We are seeing the “methane moment” from COP26 turn into a “methane movement”. 158 countries as well as the European Union are now participating in the Global Methane Pledge.
Participants
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![Chad](https://cdn.statically.io/img/www.globalmethanepledge.org/sites/default/files/styles/logo_list_view/public/2022-12/2560px-Flag_of_Chad.png?itok=ze9Gq3mD)
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![The Comoros](https://cdn.statically.io/img/www.globalmethanepledge.org/sites/default/files/styles/logo_list_view/public/2022-12/Flag_of_the_Comoros.png?itok=My-ON87h)
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![Equatorial Guinea](https://cdn.statically.io/img/www.globalmethanepledge.org/sites/default/files/styles/logo_list_view/public/2022-11/Flag_of_Equatorial_Guinea.png?itok=LIQmoC8-)
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![Flag of Ethiopia](https://cdn.statically.io/img/www.globalmethanepledge.org/sites/default/files/styles/logo_list_view/public/2021-11/Flag_of_Ethiopia.png?itok=xjjXvKJX)
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![Flag of Gabon](https://cdn.statically.io/img/www.globalmethanepledge.org/sites/default/files/styles/logo_list_view/public/2021-11/Flag_of_Gabon.png?itok=t-88UAlF)
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![KOREA (REPUBLIC OF)](https://cdn.statically.io/img/www.globalmethanepledge.org/sites/default/files/styles/logo_list_view/public/2023-11/Flag_of_Republic_of_Korea.png?itok=P_pegveh)
![Kosovo](https://cdn.statically.io/img/www.globalmethanepledge.org/sites/default/files/styles/logo_list_view/public/2022-06/Flag_of_Kosovo.png?itok=7UOmzZ-Y)
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![Lebanon](https://cdn.statically.io/img/www.globalmethanepledge.org/sites/default/files/styles/logo_list_view/public/2022-11/Flag_of_Lebanon.png?itok=PiB0lOub)
![Lesotho](https://cdn.statically.io/img/www.globalmethanepledge.org/sites/default/files/styles/logo_list_view/public/2022-12/Flag_of_Lesotho.png?itok=Q6iN8PuR)
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![São Tomé and Príncipe](https://cdn.statically.io/img/www.globalmethanepledge.org/sites/default/files/styles/logo_list_view/public/2022-12/Flag_of_S%C3%A3o_Tom%C3%A9_and_Pr%C3%ADncipe.png?itok=8Rq5sPUZ)
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Champions
In 2023 a group of “GMP Champions” was convened. It comprises Canada, Germany, Japan, the Federated States of Micronesia, Nigeria and the GMP co-conveners, European Union and the United States. Each GMP Champion has designated high level official(s) to advance the work of the GMP by:
- Advocating for methane action in relevant global and regional fora.
- Accelerating implementation of the GMP by (a) originating and/or playing a leading role on international methane efforts as appropriate, and (b) strengthening domestic methane mitigation efforts.
- Assembling on a regular basis to provide an update on the above and discuss key GMP next steps.
Champions of the Global Methane Pledge (GMP) are uniting to advocate for accelerated methane action to achieve the Pledge and galvanise further progress by country participants and GMP supporters. As Champions, they will continue to spur domestic action in their respective countries.
Supporters
News & Updates
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Climate and Clean Air Coalition convenes countries and experts to accelerate action on methane abatement and avoid the worst of the climate crisis
Highlights from 2023 Global Methane Pledge Ministerial
Lowering Organic Waste Methane Initiative (LOW-Methane)
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Accelerating Fast Mitigation: Summit on Methane and Non-CO2 Greenhouse Gases
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Commission welcomes deal on first-ever EU law to curb methane emissions in the EU and globally
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Bosnia and Herzegovina Embarks On SLCP Reductions Mission
Events
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2024 Global Methane Forum - Mobilizing Methane Action
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Climate and Clean Air Conference 2024
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Climate & Clean Air Ministerial 2023
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Global Methane Pledge Ministerial
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COP28 Summit on Methane and Other Non-CO2 Greenhouse Gases
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Methane at COP28
Resources
Key Methane Messages for COP28 2023
These key messages on methane for COP28 were developed to support GMP community messaging at COP28. These messages were prepared by the CCAC Secretariat - which provides secretariat services to the GMP - in collaboration with the GMP Champions.
The Imperative of Cutting Methane from Fossil Fuels
The Imperative of Cutting Methane from Fossil Fuels by the International Energy Agency (IEA) in partnership with the United Nations Environment Programme (UNEP) and the UNEP-convened Climate and Clean Air Coalition (CCAC) builds on findings from the IEA’s recently updated pathway to limit global...
Global Methane Pledge
President Biden and President Von der Leyen announced at the September 17 Major Economies Forum (MEF) meeting that the United States and the European Union are inviting countries to support the Global Methane Pledge to be launched at COP 26 in November 2021 in Glasgow. Participants joining the...
Global Methane Assessment: 2030 Baseline Report
This report is a product of the Global Methane Assessment (GMA) by the United Nations Environment Programme (UNEP) and UNEP-convened Climate and Clean Air Coalition that details projections of anthropogenic methane emissions through 2030 under various baseline scenarios and assesses the climate...
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Briefing on the Global Methane Pledge
2021 is the moment for methane. The CCAC-UNEP Global Methane Assessment set out an opportunity to change the climate trajectory within the next 20 years—a critical timeframe for slowing warming and self- reinforcing feedbacks enough to avoid passing dangerous tipping points. The 6th Assessment...
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Assessment of Environmental and Societal Benefits of Methane Reductions (web tool)
This site displays analyses from the Global Methane Assessment: Benefits and Costs of Mitigating Methane Emissions, which provides an in-depth analysis of opportunities to reduce methane emissions from all sectors and regions as well as the associated costs and the benefits to human health, crops...
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Multimedia
Global Methane Pledge Ministerial at COP27: 17 Nov 2022
In the year since it launched at COP26, the Global Methane Pledge has generated unprecedented momentum for methane action.
Remarks by Ursula von der Leyen
Remarks from President of the European Commission, Ursula von der Leyen, at the launch of the Global Methane Pledge at the U.N. Climate Summit (COP26), Nov. 2, 2021, in Glasgow, Scotland.
Remarks by US President Joe Biden
Remarks by US President Joe Biden at the launch of the Global Methane Pledge at the U.N. Climate Summit (COP26), Nov. 2, 2021, in Glasgow, Scotland.