International Methane Emissions Observatory - IMEO

🛰 At today's White House Super Pollutant Summit: the UN Environment Programme's IMEO announces new participation in efforts translating satellite data to action. 🔺 UNEP's Methane Alert and Response Program, which puts satellite data directly in the hands of governments and companies, now has nominated focal points in place that represent 60% of global oil and gas production.   🔺 MARS uses data from over a dozen earth observation instruments to detect major methane emissions and drive action by informing stakeholders with the power to act.   🔺 Notifications have already led to successful methane emissions mitigation, and countries where 2/3 of emissions were detected by MARS in 2023 now have focal points in place.   Credible data is key to unlocking methane action at speed and scale, and MARS is empowering stakeholders to achieve the goals of the Global Methane Pledge and keep climate stability within reach. 🌎 The UN Environment Programme is helping scale data-driven and policy solutions to mitigate methane through Global Methane Pledge implementers IMEO and the Climate & Clean Air Coalition, which is also a MARS partner. Full announcement from The White House: https://lnkd.in/dzCewUTk More about UNEP's work on methane: unep.org/methane

👏 To meet the world's methane goals, national oil companies' (NOCs) participation is vital – and a growing number of NOCs have joined OGMP 2.0. A new report from the Center for Strategic and International Studies (CSIS) highlights the resources available to NOCs, which represent about half the world's oil and gas, to translate ambition into action. The UN Environment Programme's Oil and Gas Methane Partnership 2.0 is a powerful framework for companies in the sector to accelerate their methane journey via credible data. 🔺 By joining, companies adopt a comprehensive, measurement-based reporting framework that increases accuracy and transparency in their reported methane emissions. 🔺 OGMP 2.0 member companies commit to reporting annually on their methane emissions from operated and non-operated assets using the most accurate methods and science-based measurement frameworks, as opposed to using generic emission factors. 📰 The report also highlights the growing interest from investors who recognize OGMP 2.0 Gold Standard Pathway and Gold Standard Reporting as a powerful performance indicator.   ➡️ This transparency is providing confidence to regulators, investors, and the general public that OGMP 2.0 members manage emissions responsibly and progress toward announced targets to #CutMethane. Read the full report “National Oil Companies and Methane Reductions: How to Meet 2030 Goals” here: https://lnkd.in/ekr-FGc5 Learn more about OGMP 2.0: https://lnkd.in/e2rfrBmU

🚀 The world is experiencing a methane data revolution with the potential to supercharge climate action, in part thanks to a new generation of satellites heading to orbit.   One is MethaneSAT, which flew to space this year and is preparing to beam down data which will play a critical role – alongside data from over a dozen other satellites – accelerating efforts to #CutMethane.   Millie Chu Baird, Mission Impact Lead for MethaneSAT, shares the story of how an audacious idea turned into this groundbreaking science effort.   “With MethaneSAT in space and the power of people on Earth, let's do everything we can, as quickly as we can, to slow the rate of global warming”   🌍 The UN Environment Programme is already translating satellite data into climate action via the Methane Alert and Response System (MARS), which scans the globe for emissions and notifies governments and companies so they can take action.   🔎 As new data from missions like MethaneSAT and Carbon Mapper becomes available, it will help expand transparency and accountability – including through initiatives like UNEP's MARS. https://lnkd.in/d-WmfkUw

📰 Methane warms the planet over 80 times faster than CO2 ➡️ As this warming worsens disasters like wildfires and heat waves, the fight to #CutMethane becomes critical. 🟢 Curbing methane emissions is the single fastest way to slow global warming as we decarbonize. But the world needs credible data to: 🔺Understand where emissions come from and where opportunities exist to take mitigation action. 🔺Track progress and understand how emissions are changing over time by providing transparency and accountability at scale. 📊 IMEO provides open, reliable, and actionable data to individuals with the power to take action on methane. This includes efforts to drive progress and accountability across the oil and gas industry, where some of the most cost-effective and readily available reductions can be achieved. Through its OGMP 2.0, the only comprehensive, measurement-based reporting framework for the sector, IMEO is scaling transparency to drive down emissions 👏. 🤝 Complementing these efforts is the UNEP-convened Climate & Clean Air Coalition, which helps build capacity and drive policy change to reduce emissions. Read the whole article by Kaveh Madani here: https://lnkd.in/d_YQ-mAD

💡As companies like PetroChina raise their methane ambition by joining the OGDC, we look forward to this being matched by transparency and accountability grounded in credible data.   🛰 Empirical data is essential for companies to cut methane as it enables them to understand where their emissions come from, how much is emitted, and how this changes over time.    🌐 UN Environment Programme's OGMP 2.0 is the world's only comprehensive, measurement-based framework for the sector to measure, report, and verify its emissions – unlocking powerful methane management and allowing resources to be targeted at the most effective mitigation solutions.   📈 The partnership already encompasses over 140 companies representing more than 40% of global oil and gas production, and we look forward to more joining it to translate methane commitments into tangible results. The latest from Bloomberg on PetroChina joining OGDC: https://lnkd.in/dJsJTP_2 More on OGMP 2.0: ogmpartnership.com

Highlights of last week's #HLPF side event "Keeping 1.5 within Reach, Setting NDCs 3.0 in Motion": 🔺 Countries must step up Nationally Determined Contribution (NDC) ambition to keep climate goals within reach. 🔺 Aligning NDCs with broader development and policies can achieve both Paris Agreement and Sustainable Development Goals. 🔑 Methane ambition is a key component of this, as it is the most powerful lever we can pull to immediately slow our current rate of warming as we decarbonise. ➡️ The data needed to act and #CutMethane is increasingly becoming available, thanks in part to IMEO's efforts to provide open, reliable, and actionable data to those empowered to reduce emissions. 📺 Watch the recording here: https://lnkd.in/dwenBWMY

Climate super pollutants are emitted from every economic sector and across the globe, including power generation, fossil fuel production and distribution, industrial processes, agriculture, transportation, buildings, and waste management. ➡️ https://lnkd.in/d6AeJSek

👏 The White House just held its Super Pollutant Summit and IMEO Head Manfredi Caltagirone shares the latest announcements on methane data. 🔺 This includes new details about how UN Environment Programme's Methane Alert and Response System (MARS) is expanding its ability to drive impact. 🔺 MARS uses over a dozen satellite instruments to scan the globe for emissions and puts this data directly into the hands of governments and companies that can use it. More details here ⬇

Methane is the low-hanging fruit for climate action. But to reduce emissions, reliable information is needed to answer key questions: Where do emissions come from? How can they be mitigated? How are they changing over time? 🔍 As part of UN Environment Programme's methane science studies, a research campaign in Romania integrated data from various sources to uncover the true extent of emissions and showed an opportunity to reduce them. ➡️ New EU methane regulations will help scale the use of credible data to #CutMethane across the oil and gas sector. 📈 Credible measurement-based data is essential for transparency and accountability ➡️ IMEO’s methane science studies are helping by making open, reliable, and actionable data available to those who can act to reduce emissions. 🟢 By coordinating measurement campaigns and collecting data IMEO aims to help stakeholders across Europe and the world improve methane management and enable mitigation and speed and scale. Read the whole article by Malika Menoud and Thomas Röckmann here: https://lnkd.in/dCTj3GxG

🚨 From The Guardian: The world experienced 12 straight months with temperatures 1.5°C above pre-industrial levels. ➡️ This temperature rise makes extreme weather and catastrophic climate events more likely. 💡Joining forces to #CutMethane is the fastest way to tackle climate change in the short term and move towards a net-zero world. Why? Because methane is a very powerful but short-lived greenhouse gas, meaning that mitigation efforts result in immediate progress to slow warming. In fact, human-caused methane emissions drive roughly 30% of current warming. That's why IMEO exists: to provide open, reliable, and actionable data to those who can reduce methane emissions. Read the whole article by Ajit Niranjan here: https://lnkd.in/dW42Ma-4