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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

Educational Resources: Overviews, Databases & Trackers

  • Global Methane Abatement Solutions Tracker (G-MAST) database compiles detailed information on mitigation measures from major anthropogenic methane-emitting sectors—energy, waste, and agriculture—covering six key sub-sectors: coal mining and oil & gas (energy), landfills and wastewater management (waste), and rice cultivation and livestock (agriculture), assembled and maintained by researchers at Center for Global Sustainability, University of Maryland
  • Methane Primer​, IGSD
  • Methane Resources free tools, data and advice to help governments slash methane emissions, assembled by researchers at UC Berkeley's Center for Law, Energy & the Environment
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