The Global Methane Hub in Santiago, Chile, has announced nearly $10 million in grants in support of international efforts to slash methane emissions. 

The Global Methane Hub is an international alliance of more than 20 leading philanthropies and organizations that have committed at least $300 million toward supporting the development and implementation of tangible methane reduction solutions by 30 percent by 2030. The grants are intended to play an instrumental role in tracking and measuring methane emissions in the waste sector.

Awards include $3 million to the Rocky Mountain Institute, Clean Air Task Force, and Carbon Mapper to create the Waste Methane Assessment Platform, an open-source platform for information on methane in the waste sector that will be accessible to national, state, and municipal policy makers, operators, and the finance industry around the world; $1.25 million to the Global Food Banking Network to quantify, track, and communicate contributions from food banks around the world in support of global climate mitigation efforts, which in turn, will incentivize investment and policy action to reduce methane emissions and expand food access for those struggling with food insecurity; and $225,000 to the Netherlands Institute for Space Research (SRON) and GHGSat to expand their current project to characterize, study, and monitor landfills around the world and work together with NGOs and local partners to mitigate these emissions. 

“The year 2030 may seem like a lifetime from now, but there is no time to spare when it comes to wide-scale methane mitigation. Rapid methane emissions reduction remains the quickest path to reversing climate change,” said Marcelo Mena, CEO of the Global Methane Hub and a former Chilean minister of environment. “This COP27, we’re proud to share our newest slate of ambitious funding initiatives, which will quickly scale up projects to identify, measure, and track methane super-emitters and unlock unprecedented methane information sharing across different sectors around the world.” 

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