Please note that the final agenda is still in development and is subject to change.

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Session 1: The Decade of Global Methane Action

With just four years before the Global Methane Pledge global target to reduce methane emissions by 30% of 2020 levels by 2030, this opening session frames the 2-day conference. The keynote and panel look back at the role of methane as the climate emergency brake, and at factors beyond “pulling the brake” and related to various policies and science efforts associated with methane monitoring, measurement and mitigation efforts established to support the successful implementation of the Global Methane Pledge, and frames the following sessions that will look ahead to the next phase of implementation in the sprint to 2030.

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Session 2: Methane Science, Past, Present and Future

Volta’s discovery of the ‘inflammable gas’ along the shorelines of Lago Maggiore set in motion 250 years of science to understand the sources and chemistry of methane. This session explores the path from the molecule’s discovery to where we are today—with a deeper understanding of methane’s role in climate, methane sources and sinks, the growing global methane observing system—to the scientific frontiers that need further exploration.

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Session 3: Solutions for Methane Policy and Science Implementation

The inclusion of methane action in local and national policies, including nationally determined contributions, requires continued investments in capacity building, technology and science as well as coordination with synergistic efforts targeting air quality and health. This session will discuss the datasets and tools being used for successful implementation of methane action and what opportunities exist in the future. and how these have been overcome through novel policies and new scientific approaches.

 

Session 4: Framing Methane Action beyond 2030

Post-2030 methane action requires re-evaluating policies, rethinking technologies to address hard to abate emissions and re-imagining new methane monitoring observatories under climate overshoot scenarios and active mitigation activities. This session discusses key issues for post-2030 methane policy, mitigation and monitoring needs that remain to be addressed.

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