Fast Track to Net Zero

Methane abatement is crucial to safeguarding climate goals and near-term meaningful climate action. Methane’s high global warming potential and short atmospheric lifespan make it uniquely positioned to deliver rapid climate benefits if addressed effectively. Achieving the 1.5°C temperature goal requires a 45% reduction in global methane emissions by 2030.

Despite this urgency, methane remains underrepresented in global climate discussions, climate policy frameworks, and financial flows. Methane must be treated as a distinct climate challenge, not merely bundled into CO₂-equivalent metrics, to ensure appropriate prioritisation in policy and finance. Specific policy is needed to make finance flow at scale to fund methane abatement.

While every country’s methane abatement policy approach will be different, there are commonalities that allow for peer learning to accelerate abatement efforts. This report identifies five archetypes of specific national sectors with policy lessons applicable for national sectors across the globe. The five archetypes are the coal sector in China, the agricultural sector in India and in Brazil, the waste sector in Indonesia, and the oil and gas (O&G) sector for any O&G exporter.