RT by @EUClimateAction: #GlobalMethanePledge was launched at #COP26 & over the last 2 years it has grown immensely. By now, 150+ countries representing 80% of the global economy have joined the Pledge. We are ready to accelerate our work to stop #methane emissions in the oil, gas & coal sectors. #COP28

🐦🔗: https://nitter.cz/KadriSimson/status/1731703079442002049#m

[2023-12-04 15:52 UTC]

Australian Labor Government acting slow on #ClimateAction. Some thoughts after the ALP National Conference. We need to ensure what the Labor Government does commit to do in the climate action space, it does very well. No loopholes.

* Integrity of #CarbonOffset credits a major loophole in #SafeguardMechanism.
* We need a climate trigger in the refresh of the EPBC Act. This can prevent new coal and gas approvals.
* The Nature Repair Market proposed by Plibersek is highly problematic in financialising #biodiverrsity which may lead to perverse extinction outcomes, but driving new profits like in the carbon offsets market.
* Net Zero Authority already established (a positive) needs to draw up fossil project phaseout contingency plans as part of a #JustTransition framework.
* Ambitious #FuelEmissionStandards important to get EVs imported and to drive takeup.
* Impose a #carbontax per tonne on all coal and gas exported. This is a transitional tax to raise revenue.
* Phaseout Fossil Fuel tax subsidies presently at $11bn per year (#G20 Commitment)
* Maintain #renewables increase and upgrade grid (transmission), grid and community batteries as urgent priority
* Prioritise reducing FF methane fugitive emissions and address measuring and reporting methodology that is failing to match satelite data (Commitment to #GlobalMethanePledge)
* Stop subsidising gas & carbon capture and storage projects (Coal to Hydrogen in Vic, subsidy to Middlearm project Darwin) Chevron's Gorgon project demonstrates #CCS falls far short of meeting targets.
* Release the ONI Climate Security Report to #TellTheTruth
* Put in place #bushfire and #heatwave preparedness measures for this summer in co-operation with the states. Fire scientist David Bowman says we are sleepwalking into disaster this summer. Early bushfire warnings already issued for SE Queensland (a month earlier than in 2019)
* Declare a Climate Emergency (A largely symbolic action, but there can be meaningful consequences)

This was a rapidly put together list after the ALP national conference. A lot more could be added.
#Auspol #ALP #ClimateCrisis

How's the UK's #GlobalMethanePledge going after 'green day' last week?

Not well. My colleague @[email protected] found the UK is way off track, in part because HMG is allowing the oil/gas industry to flare 750k homes' worth of gas/year! https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2023/apr/12/uk-off-track-on-pledge-to-cut-methane-emissions-study-30-per-cent-2030

What changed? Defra gets a 👏for acting on methane suppressants for cows/sheep, while @energygovuk is protecting polluters👎.

The result? A meagre 14% reduction in methane by 2030, vs our analysis that -43% is doable: https://green-alliance.org.uk/wp-content/uploads/2022/10/Global-methane-pledge.pdf

Reducing gas flaring

✂️ cuts #methane emissions
💶 turns formerly wasted resources into sources of revenues for producing countries
⚡️ benefits #energysecurity worldwide and implements the #GlobalMethanePledge for the climate

#EndRoutineFlaring
RT @WBG_Energy: After a decade of stalled progress, global gas flaring fell by 5 billion cubic meters in 2022. But efforts to end this wasteful and polluting 160-year-old practice must accelerate. #EndRoutineFlaring

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🐦🔗: https://n.respublicae.eu/Energy4Europe/status/1641747602759712769

In the United States, a fee for fugitive #methane, plans for next-generation performance standards, and a “super-emitter response program” inviting #leak reports from credible third parties.

Several other nations have also advanced new methane policies but many leading oil and gas producers have sidestepped the #GlobalMethanePledge and failed to develop credible mitigation policies.

https://www.brookings.edu/blog/fixgov/2023/01/06/methane-comes-front-and-center-in-climate-change-policy/