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47 Fletcher F. World Aff. 5 (2023)
We Need to Talk about Methane

handle is hein.journals/forwa47 and id is 5 raw text is: 5 We Need to Talk About Methane DEBORAH GORDON This decade will be decisive in the fight against climate change to avoid breaching the 1.5 degree Celsius temperature threshold agreed to at the 2015 United Nations Climate Change Conference in Paris. It will be impossible to safeguard the planet without controlling emissions from the oil and gas sectors. While public and private climate action has historically been focused on carbon dioxide, it is now time to reprioritize action on methane: a climate super-pollutant that is the main component ofoil and gas. All eyes are on the United States to successfully implement its new methane regulations and methane fee to reduce emissions by 50 percent below 2005 levels in 2030. The world must follow the United States' lead. Global policymakers, financial investors, environmental advocates, and citizens must put methanefront and center to spur sound climate decision-making. Immediate, practical steps are needed to prevent methane leakage in the critical oil and gas sectors while sustainable progress is made to transition to a carbon-free energy future. Despite daily news of climate disasters, global actors are making progress on climate change. Fifty years ago, at the United Nation's first Conference on the Human Environment in Stockholm, the issue of global warming governance was put on the table. Countries were warned to be mindful of activities in which there is an appreciable risk of effects on climate.' Hundreds of recommendations were formally declared, including that the UN collect, measure, and analyze data on the environ- mental effects of energy use and production. Carbon dioxide was expressly Deborah Gordon is a Senior Principal in RMI's Climate Intelligence Program, where her work focuses on oil, gas, and climate change. She also serves as a Senior Fellow at the Watson Institute for International and Public Afairs and is an affiliate of the Brown University Climate Solutions Lab. Gordon's research spearheaded the development of the Oil Climate Index Plus Gas (OCI+), afirst-of-its-kind analytic tool that compares the life-cycle climate impacts ofglobal oil andgas resources. The OCI+ is the topic of Gordon's new book, No Standard Oil (Oxford University Press, 2022). VOL.47:I WINTER 2023

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