Methane-Focused Organizations & Initiatives
- Clean Air Task Force (CATF)
- Climate and Clean Air Coalition (CCAC)
- Environmental Defense Fund (EDF) and EDF+Business
- Global Enteric Methane Industry Association (GEMIA)
- Global Methane Hub (GMH) - supporting the global South in implementing methane mitigation strategies, at the country level
- Global Methane Initiative (GMI) - international public-private partnership to reduce barriers to recovery and use methane as an energy source
- Harvard Initiative on Reducing Global Methane Emissions
- Institute for Governance and Sustainable Development (IGSD)
- International Methane Emissions Observatory (IMEO) of the United Nations Environmental Programme (UNEP)
- Methane Action - working toward mandated methane reductions
- Oil and Gas Climate Initiative (OGCI)
- Oil and Gas Decarbonization Charter (OGDC)
- Oil and Gas Methane Partnership 2.0 (OGMP)
- One Future Alliance - natural gas business alliance on methane emissions reduction
- Spark Climate Solutions - enteric methane and atmospheric methane
- Subnational Methane Action Coalition (SMAC)
Annual Methane Reports
- Global Methane Status Report 2025, United Nations Environment Programme (UNEP)
- Eye on Methane annual report 2025, UNEP's International Methane Emissions Observatory (IMEO)
- Oil and Gas Climate Initiative (OGCI) Progress Report 2025
- Oil and Gas Decarbonization Charter (OGDC) 2025 Status Report
- Global Flaring and Methane Reduction Partnership (GFMR) Annual Progress Report 2025
- Global Methane Budget 2024, Global Carbon Project
- Global Methane Assessment 2021, United Nations Environment Programme (UNEP) and Climate & Clean Air Coalition
Scientific Research & Reports
- "Global Methane Action Pays for Itself at Least Six Times Over," Stoerk et al. 2025, Science
- "Human Activities Now Fuel Two-Thirds of Global Methane Emissions," Jackson et al. 2024, Environmental Research Letters
- "Acting Rapidly to Deploy Readily Available Methane Mitigation Measures by Sector can Immediately Slow Global Warming," Ocko et al. 2021, Environmental Research Letters
- "Mitigating climate disruption in time: A self-consistent approach for avoiding both near-term and long-term global warming," Dreyfus et al. 2021, Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences (PNAS)
Policies & Regulations
- Alberta's Technology Innovation and Emissions Reduction (TIER) Regulation
- California Cap-and-Trade Program
- California Corporate Greenhouse Gas (GHG) Reporting and Climate Related Financial Risk Disclosure Programs
- California Low-Carbon Fuel Standard
- European Union Corporate Sustainability Reporting Directive (CSRD)
- European Union Emissions Trading System (ETS)
- European Union Methane Emissions Regulation
- Global Methane Pledge
- Methane Resources University of California, Berkeley Law School Center for Law, Energy & the Environment's tool for policymakers
- Paris Agreement Crediting Mechanism
- Quebec Cap-and-Trade System
Overviews, Databases & Trackers
- Global Methane Abatement Solutions Tracker (G-MAST), a resource that identifies and categorizes technologies and strategies for reducing methane emissions across major sectors, with technology description, reduction efficiency, abatement cost, climate and geographic suitability, maturity level, and documented environmental and socioeconomic co-benefits, where available. Assembled and maintained by researchers at Center for Global Sustainability, University of Maryland.
- Global Methane Explorer, a dashboard for national methane emissions, targets and policies, created by Climate Analytics, funded by the Global Methane Hub.
- Methane Resources, tools, data and advice to help governments slash methane emissions, organized by government level (local, state/provincial, national) and sector (agriculture, oil and gas, coal, waste), assembled by researchers at UC Berkeley's Center for Law, Energy & the Environment.
- A Primer on Cutting Methane: The Best Strategy for Slowing Warming in the Decade to 2030, a 396 page document compiled by the Institute for Governance & Sustainable Development (2024)
- Subnational Methane Dashboard, a tool to explore the methane policy landscape, pilot mitigation projects, and emission trends in subnational jurisdictions worldwide, created by researchers at the California-China Climate Institute, University of California, Berkeley and the University of Hong Kong, in partnership with Global Methane Hub