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We are a coalition of global organizations calling on world leaders to seize the methane moment at COP27. Join the pledge to cut methane pollution and save the planet.

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Why Methane?

To save the planet, we need to reduce short-lived, but potent emissions of methane alongside efforts to decarbonize. Methane (CH4) is a greenhouse gas that traps over 80 times more heat in our atmosphere than carbon dioxide over the first 20 years. Swift action to reduce methane pollution from the world’s major sources is the most immediate way we can slow warming now.

Largest Sources of Methane

Agriculture

Energy

Waste

Did You Know?

Download and share the facts on methane.

Reducing human-caused methane emissions is one of the most cost-effective strategies to rapidly reduce the rate of warming.
Methane is one of the fastest growing green house gases and has 80 times the potential of carbon dioxide to warm the climate over a 20-year horizon.
Methane's short atmospheric lifetime means taking action now can quickly reduce atmospheric concentrations.
Mitigation of methane is very likely the strategy with the greatest potential to decrease warming over the next 20 years.
Reducing methane emissions by 45 percent would avoid 0.3 degrees celsius warming by 2040.
With pre-existing technology, a 75 percent reduction in methane from the oil and gas sector is possible, and 50 percent of this could be done at no net cost.
Reducing methane emissions by 45 percent could prevent 26 millions tonnes of staple crop losses.
Currently available measures could reduce methane emissions by as much as 45 percent by 2030.
Composting your organic waste avoids twice the emissions of leaving the car at home.
Methane causes 25 percent of global warming.
Forty percent of oil and gas methane can be eliminated at no cost.
Fast action on methane can keep a 1.5 degree celsius future within reach.
Agriculture causes 40 percent of global methane.
The oil and gas sector emits 80 million tons of methane.
Twenty percent of methane comes from waste.
More than 120 countries pledged to cut methane 30 percent by 2030.
Cutting methane quickly can slow the speed of warming 30 percent.

Invisible Threat

Methane is an invisible pollutant causing at least 25% of current warming.

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