WHY METHANE A THREAT ???
#Potent and short lived Green House Gas(GHG)
#2nd most important GHG after CO2
#Account for 1/3 rd of todays atmospheric warming
#Its a precurser to tropospheric ozone
METHANE TO MARKET PARTNERSHIP
Its a predecesser to GMI
ABOUT GMI
# Voluntary, international partnership that brings together national governments, private sector entities, development banks, NGOs and other interested stakeholders
AIM
# Cost effective near term methane gas abetment
# Advance methane gas recovery
# Use methane as a clean energy source
FIVE MAJOR FOCUS AREAS
1.Agriculture
2.Coal mines
3.Municipal Solid Waste
4.Oil and Natural Gas
5.Waste water
SUCCESS STORIES
Gas Cogeneration Project in Poland : Economically feasible methane extraction from abandoned Zory coal mine
Waste management in Nigeria : Landfill Gas Energy Project in Abule,Egba.
FOR ADVANCED LEARNERS
GLOBAL METHANE FORUM (GMF)
Bring together GMI,Clean and Climate Energy Coalition and Canada