The Climate Has an Emergency Brake. It's Time to Pull It.
The Methane Emergency Brake campaign calls on governments at all levels and international organisations to:
Establish Mandatory Methane Measures
We demand governments go beyond voluntary pledges and adopt enforceable, legally binding methane mitigation strategies, meeting or exceeding a 45% reduction in anthropogenic methane emissions this decade, in line with the Paris Agreement. These measures must encompass all major methane-emitting sectors, including fossil fuels, agriculture, waste, and hydropower.
Cut Fossil Methane Fast
We demand that fossil fuel companies who pledged at COP28 to reduce methane emissions to near zero and to stop flaring by 2030 commit to mandatory methane mitigation to fulfil these promises. This mitigation can be achieved using existing technologies.]
Tell the Truth about Methane Emissions and Impacts
Countries and companies should use the latest data to report their methane emissions truthfully, including data they acquire from on-site measurement and data from satellites. The IPCC should update its global warming potential (GWP) metrics for methane to always include a 20-year time frame alongside GWP100 and require accurate emissions reporting, with double accounting (GWP20/100) as a minimum standard. But even GWP20 doesn’t capture more accurate ways of showing methane’s immediate heating contribution, and we need to take more accurate measures of it into account.
