GLOBAL METHANE INITIATIVE(GMI)

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

 

 

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