Clean Exit Campaign • Archive • June 2025 – May 2026
Clean Exit: Coal Methane Abatement Archive
Technical Solutions & Research
The Clean Exit campaign launched in June 2025 with a clear purpose: to raise awareness of coal mine methane abatement as an urgent, commercially viable climate solution — and to bring that argument directly to the policymakers, climate experts, investors, and industry leaders with the power to act on it. In six months it generated over 5M impressions across social platforms, opening conversations at the highest levels of climate investment and policymaking. This archive is the complete record of every article, analysis, fireside chat, and post published under the campaign. Content was published primarily on LinkedIn, with parallel posts across X, Facebook, and Bluesky.
Original Articles & Research
Ember this week: 68% of India’s fugitive fossil methane is from coal mines, set to more than double by 2030, with no framework to monitor, report or abate. – https://bit.ly/3RJXP78 – May 2026
War – The consequence is predictable, and already underway. Asian importers, squeezed out of stable LNG, are pivoting to coal. – https://bit.ly/4nCg0b5 – May 2026
Data centres are the fastest-growing source of electricity demand in the world. And in the pressure that is placing on grids, something significant is happening: coal mine methane – https://bit.ly/4fs4BZ7 – May 2026
Our UNECE Geneva dispatch is live. – China deployed twenty new VAM projects last year alone. Methane Brief nr 5 – https://bit.ly/4nw7Dxu – May 2026
High-Level Stakeholder Roundtable on the EU ETS Review – https://bit.ly/4wuFYkB – May 2026
Coming out of the international high‑level event on methane under the G7 presidency of France, the takeaway is pretty clear: the methane debate has moved from why to how. via LinkedIn post – https://bit.ly/4uLUeUy – May 2026
Could Santa Marta climate talks mark ground zero in push to ditch fossil fuels? via Fiona Harvey Jonathan Watts The Guardian – https://bit.ly/4dpUQIh – May 2026
A year and a half after the EU Methane Regulation was adopted, early implementation is underway across Europe via EDF – https://bit.ly/4uahpIa – May 2026
The most interesting climate award this week wasn’t in the headline. Pennsylvania just announced $267 million in industrial decarbonisation grants under Governor Shapiro’s RISE PA programme – https://bit.ly/4frMX7K – May 2026
As world leaders meet in #Colombia this month to plan a transition away from fossil fuels, a silent super-emitter is often overlooked: coal mine
#methane via Ember – https://bit.ly/4dMuEsK – April 2026
UNECE: Today’s session of the UNECE Group of Experts on Gas discussed the evolving role of gas in a resilient, low-carbon energy future.- https://bit.ly/4uSZGF0 – April 2026
From a coal mine in Bijie, China to the UN in Geneva — how Clean Exit happened. Implementation Pathways for Just Transition – Methane – https://bit.ly/4dhWGMA – April 2026
From COP30 to COP31: what does implementation actually look like? Side event at #UNECEResourceManagementWeek2026 – https://bit.ly/4wB4zo0 – April 2026
From COP30 to COP31: Implementation Pathways for Just Transition, Methane, and Critical Minerals” in Geneva
during the UNECE – United Nations Economic Commission for Europe Resource Management Week. – https://bit.ly/3PHFnLX – April 2026
48 hours to Geneva to the UNECE Sustainable Energy Conference – https://bit.ly/4uafJym – April 2026
New global climate panel aims to accelerate move away from fossil fuels via The Guardian – https://bit.ly/4uZj6IB – April 2026
Reducing methane emissions across the oil and gas sector requires coordinated action at industry level – https://bit.ly/3PsmXyw – April 2026
The historic Santa Marta conference on Transitioning Away from Fossil Fuels – https://bit.ly/4tGiCpK – April 2026
Because methane is the main component of natural gas, keeping it from escaping into the atmosphere supports energy security, saves money, and protects human and environmental health – https://bit.ly/4uiffGo – April 2026
Are we quietly giving up on stopping climate breakdown? Via Jonathon Porritt – April 2026 – https://bit.ly/4tK3dEK – April 2026
Three people. Ten months. One campaign. – https://bit.ly/3Rf9Bq2 April 2026
There is one category of accidental climate company that deserves far more attention than it gets: the coal mine.- https://bit.ly/3PI7YAK – April 2026
UNECE Sustainable Energy – Side event at the UNECE Resource Management Week 2026 – https://bit.ly/4dthkbj – April 2026
Only 15 commercial VAM installations operate globally. – https://bit.ly/4umnrWg – April 2026
Microsoft’s carbon removal pause last week revealed something the voluntary carbon market has always known but rarely said: when the biggest buyer pauses, the market pauses with it. – https://bit.ly/4uSETBu – April 2026
Next week in Geneva — 10 months of work, one proof of concept – Clean Exit Campaign Facts and Figures – https://bit.ly/4wvwLZz – April 2026
IEA Our Global Energy Review 2026 is out now – https://bit.ly/498Ml3b – April 2026
The Accidental Climate Company – https://bit.ly/4uO7hEN – April 2026
I sat down with Rich Grzanka, Anguil, for a fireside chat before we both travel to Geneva the 27th of April for the UNECE Global Methane Forum.- https://bit.ly/4wAHmCq – April 2026
War in the Middle East is stress-testing every energy system on the planet.https://bit.ly/4wAXiob – April 2026
Methane Brief nr 4 – Last week the European Commission confirmed it on the record: no EU ETS pathway for coal mine methane – https://bit.ly/4wAXiob – April 2026
What will happen next? In policy, in finance, in project development – to turn a proven solution into a scaled reality? – https://bit.ly/4dvJqmA – April 2026
California told Microsoft to count its emissions. Not to cut them. That distinction matters more than most people realise. https://bit.ly/4tC5Msn – April 2026
The coal is still burning. The methane is still venting. The credits are on hold. – Microsoft – https://bit.ly/4wB1cxm – April 2026
2025 was supposed to be the beginning of the end for coal.- https://bit.ly/42Bi2yq – April 2026
Webinar Clean Exit Campaign and EMBER – An underground coal mine ventilation shaft could release an estimated 50,000 TONNES of methane emissions per year, equivalent to the CO2 emissions of 2 MILLION cars – https://bit.ly/4dvwBbI – April 2026
Methane Matters – Why? Meet up on Tuesday 14 April 3pm Brussel Time – https://bit.ly/3Rbouty – More in Methane Brief at methanebrief.org – April 2026
New Ideas in the Climate Change Fight via EARTHDAY.ORG – https://bit.ly/4tEAwsI – April 2026
UK opening new oil and gas fields would imperil global climate goals, experts say via Fiona Harvey The Guardian – https://bit.ly/4uiJOMr – April 2026
We are only spending about $35 billion on nature restoration, but businesses spend $5 trillion on destroying nature, so that equation needs to change. via We Dont Have Time – https://bit.ly/4tGfeLy – April 2026
The MethaneSAT mission was built to enable action to reduce emissions. This is MethaneSAT data in action.- https://bit.ly/497vXA1 – April 2026
Last night I watched a TV debate about energy security and the Middle East war. Smart people. Serious panel. Real stakes.
Coal was presented as the answer. – https://bit.ly/4nwdenr – April 2026
Over half a million oil and gas wells in the United States are what are known as “marginal wells,” producing at most 630 gallons a day via RMI – https://bit.ly/4uTpOQ3 – April 2026
Today, the scientific community is issuing a clear call to action on Methane via EDF – https://bit.ly/4uabnr0 – April 2026
Methane (CH₄) is responsible for around 30% of global warming today.- https://bit.ly/4ujm2ji – April 2026
False narratives continue to downplay the urgency of climate action by minimising current risks or distorting scientific trends. – https://bit.ly/4wqctAq – April 2026
The Philippines declared a national energy emergency and immediately switched from gas to coal. – https://bit.ly/3Rf3D8H – April 2026
Methane Brief: A Byweekly intelligence on methane abatement — for leaders across industry, policy, and finance. Number 3 is now published – https://bit.ly/4nyNUxf – April 2026
The EU ETS — the world’s most advanced carbon market — is heading into its July 2026 review under enormous political pressure from member states arguing that carbon pricing kills industrial competitiveness.- https://bit.ly/4uZefXT – April 2026
Updates on EU sustainable finance, including upcoming changes to the EU Taxonomy, the European Commission’s Clean Energy Investment Strategy, and latest market data – https://bit.ly/49VZtJ9 – April 2026
The EU’s carbon market just survived its biggest political attack in twenty years. – https://bit.ly/4tCb7jl – April 2026
Do you want to know climate predictions per country, depending on AMOC collapse & global temperature rise? Video via New Scientist – https://bit.ly/42BfQqG – April 2026
Coal is returning to centre stage – driven by datacentres, LNG disruption, and national security logic – https://bit.ly/42HH0w5 – April 2026
Real-world impact in a clean exit: mitigating emissions from ventilation air methane in the EU – https://bit.ly/494qOZn – April 2026
Solar is winning the energy race via DW Akademie – https://bit.ly/4dgPRuQ – April 2026
One fossil-fuel price shock can wipe out the entire cost of the UK’s net‑zero transition to 2050. – https://bit.ly/3PMuwAn – April 2026
The Market is Bifurcating – and the Stakes are High – Nr 2 in Methane Brief: The Carbon Credit Reckoning – https://bit.ly/4uhacWT – April 2026
While the world watches the Strait of Hormuz burn, China just quietly passed the most consequential environmental law in history.- https://bit.ly/3Pntrim – April 2026
Ember – Regenerative thermal oxidisers (RTO) convert into Co2, water, vapour and heat – https://bit.ly/4dplfYd – April 2026
EU Methane Regulation: 2026 Is the Enforcement Year – March 2026
Applications NOW OPEN for the Climate Curve Prize: Methane! – March 2026
The Methane Brief is here – March 2026
Most from coal mines escapes to the atmosphere through ventilation shafts – March 2026
Shifting the narrative from a “technical niche” to a top-tier climate priority. – March 2026
THE $7 CLIMATE SOLUTION NOBODY WANTS TO TALK ABOUT – More in Methanebrief nr 1 – March 2026
Methane from coal mines is a major—and often overlooked—climate threat – March 2026
“If your food has a label, your fossil fuels should too.” – March 2026
Is the Middle East War Handing Coal a Free Pass? – March 2026
The Carbon Credit Reckoning: Why Coal Mine Methane Is the Offset the Market Keeps Ignoring — 25 February 2026
The flagship Clean Exit research paper: why coal mine methane abatement credits outperform nature-based solutions on permanence, verification, and cost — and why the investment community keeps ignoring them
Clean Exit from Coal Mine Methane: How to Pull the Climate Emergency Brake — 5 February 2026
The case for treating methane abatement as the emergency brake available right now while the long-term energy transition takes decades to materialise.
CCS and Nature-Based Removals Won’t Deliver Fast Enough — Methane Abatement Will — November 2025
A direct comparison of climate intervention timelines: why methane abatement outperforms longer-horizon solutions for near-term impact.
Coal’s Resilient Reality: A Necessary Fuel and the Case for Methane Abatement — December 2025
Confronting the reality that coal will remain operational for decades and what that means for methane abatement strategy.
The Era of Methane Credits Has Begun — September 2025
How regulatory frameworks in California, Australia, and China are converging to create a new, high-integrity carbon credit category.
Why Methane Abatement May Be the Smartest Climate Investment of This Decade — November 2025
The investment case for coal mine methane abatement: cost, verifiability, permanence, and the first-mover window.
Turning Methane Into Opportunity: How Coal Mines Could Help Clean Up the Climate — November 2025
The economic reframe: coal mine methane not as a waste product to be managed, but a climate asset to be monetised.
What We Missed About Methane — and Why We Can’t Afford to Anymore — November 2025
A structural critique of why methane has been systematically underweighted in climate policy and climate finance.
How to Pull the Climate Emergency Brake — November 2025
The fastest available lever for near-term temperature impact — and the policy infrastructure needed to pull it.
Methane: The Fastest Way to Cool the Planet — and We’re Still Ignoring It — October 2025
Why methane abatement offers greater near-term climate return per dollar than any comparable intervention.
Methane: The Fastest Climate Fix We’re Still Ignoring — October 2025
A second take on the same core argument, developed for a broader finance and policy audience.
One of the Most Efficient Climate Actions Has Already Been Proven — October 2025
The commercial and technical case that VAM abatement is not a future solution — it is an operational one.
The Climate Solution No One Wants to Touch — But Everyone Needs — July 2025
Why reputational discomfort is preventing capital from reaching one of the most cost-effective climate solutions available.
Can Methane Abatement Be Green Finance? — July 2025
Examining whether coal mine methane abatement meets the criteria for green finance classification — and what needs to change if it doesn’t.
A Clean Exit: Unlocking VAM’s Climate Potential — June 2025
The foundational Clean Exit campaign paper arguing for VAM as a high-impact, commercially viable climate intervention.
Why Policymakers Must Act on Coal’s Methane Problem — Now — June 2025
The policy case for prioritising coal mine methane abatement within national climate frameworks.
What Environmentalists Like Me Got Wrong About Climate Change Carl Pope — June 2025
A senior environmental leader reconsiders the movement’s approach to industrial methane and pragmatic climate action.
Technical Analysis
Satellites Don’t Lie: MethaneSAT’s First Global Assessment — 18 February 2026
MethaneSAT’s first global data confirms oil and gas methane emissions are far higher than industry self-reports.
UNEP’s Eye on Methane Shows the Data Is Here — January 2026
Satellite monitoring is now confirming methane emission levels that industry self-reporting has consistently understated.
Today, the Evidence Is Undeniable: Methane Traps Over 82 Times More Heat than CO₂ — October 2025
The updated climate science case for treating methane as a primary target — not a secondary consideration.
You Can’t Fix What You Can’t See — October 2025
The monitoring and measurement gap in coal mine methane reporting — and what closing it means for abatement investment.
Seeing the Unseen: Methane in Plain Sight — September 2025
How new detection technologies are making previously invisible methane emissions visible to regulators and investors.
One Single Installation of VAM Mitigation Can Have the Same Effect as Removing 2 Million Cars from the Roads — September 2025
The scale of per-installation climate impact from VAM thermal oxidation — and why this number is not widely known.
Cleaning VAM from a Single Shaft: The Same Climate Impact as Taking Two Million Cars off the Road — September 2025
A second treatment of the same impact argument, developed for a different audience segment.
Independent measurement data contradicting industry self-reporting across three major producing regions.
How VAM Mitigation Offers a Commercially Viable Path for Climate Action — July 2025
The commercial case for VAM abatement: technology costs, carbon credit revenues, and the dual income model from grid energy sales.
The Overlooked Giant in Methane Mitigation Richard Mattus — July 2025
A technical assessment of VAM as the largest underaddressed methane stream in the coal sector.
The Methane Solution: A High-Impact, Low-Cost Strategy for Rapid Emission Reductions Richard Mattus — September 2025
Engineering economics of VAM thermal oxidation and the cost case for immediate deployment.
Richard Mattus: When It Comes to Slashing Methane Emissions Richard Mattus — July 2025
Richard Mattus on the technical and commercial barriers preventing VAM abatement from scaling — and how to remove them.
Read Also: The Methane Solution — A High-Impact, Low-Cost Strategy Richard Mattus — August 2025
By Richard Mattus. A companion piece developed for a finance audience.
Methane’s Moment: 2025 in Review — December 2025
An annual review of the methane story: what changed in 2025, what didn’t, and what 2026 must deliver.
Currently, a Mere 2% of Global Climate Action Funding Is Allocated to Methane Mitigation — November 2025
The starkest number in climate finance — and the argument for rebalancing toward immediate, high-impact solutions.
Methane Is the Second-Biggest Driver of Global Warming After CO₂ — November 2025
The climate science case for treating methane as a primary target — not a secondary consideration.
Methane Mitigation Is Emerging as One of the Clearest Opportunities to Prevent Dangerous Warming This Decade — November 2025
Why methane abatement is now recognised as the fastest route to near-term temperature impact.
Cutting Methane Is One of the Fastest, Most Effective Ways to Slow Climate Change — November 2025
A concise synthesis of the scientific case for prioritising methane reduction in climate policy.
Drastically Reducing Methane Emissions in the Global Fossil Fuel Sector — November 2025
From the Climate & Clean Air Coalition: the abatement potential and policy tools for fossil fuel methane reduction.
One of the Most Efficient Climate Actions Has Already Been Proven — November 2025
The commercial proof points for VAM thermal oxidation — and why the market has been slow to recognise them.
Policy & Regulation
EU Parliament Approves High-Quality International Carbon Credits for 2040 Target — 18 February 2026
The EU’s approval of international carbon credits for its 2040 target opens a significant pathway for coal mine methane abatement credits.
EU Methane Regulation: 2026 Is the Enforcement Year — 13 February 2026
The EU’s methane regulation moves from framework to enforcement — and what it means for importers and operators.
Coal Methane: The Regulatory Orphan — EPA Delays Oil and Gas Methane Rules by 18 Months — 17 February 2026
The US EPA’s decision to delay methane regulation leaves coal mine methane in an ongoing policy vacuum.
Starting January 2027, EU Importers of Oil and Gas Must Report Methane Emissions Data from Their Suppliers — 11 February 2026
The reporting obligation that will reshape supply chain methane accountability across European energy markets.
Tackling Methane: The EU’s Bold Push for Climate Action — January 2026
Overview of the EU’s methane strategy and its implications for coal-producing member states.
Bloomberg’s 14 Climate Trends for 2026 — January 2026
Bloomberg’s annual climate outlook — and a notable absence: coal mine methane abatement is not on the list.
US EPA Delays Methane Emission Limits for Oil and Gas Industry Until 2027 — November 2025
Analysis of the regulatory delay and what it signals for methane policy momentum in the United States.
The UK Has Published a Comprehensive Methane Action Plan — December 2025
The UK’s methane action plan and its relevance for coal sector obligations.
Investors Are Warning Brussels: Don’t Gut the EU Methane Regulation — September 2025
Investor pressure on the European Commission to maintain the integrity of the EU’s methane regulatory framework.
EU Methane Regulation Turned. And Momentum Is Strong. — September 2025
Assessment of where the EU’s methane regulation stands and the trajectory toward full implementation.
EU MEPs Are Calling to Amend the EU–U.S. Trade Deal on LNG Imports — September 2025
European parliamentarians push back on LNG import provisions that they argue undermine Europe’s climate agenda.
Halting Wind, Boosting Coal: Energy Policy Stuck in the Past — September 2025
A critique of energy policy frameworks that continue to subsidise fossil fuel infrastructure while constraining renewables.
Kazakhstan and the Global Methane Hub Signed a Memorandum of Understanding — September 2025
Kazakhstan’s formal commitment to methane reduction cooperation — a signal of expanding global policy momentum.
Even If Nations Meet Their 2030 Climate Pledges, We’re Still Heading for 2.6°C of Warming — September 2025
The ambition gap in current NDCs — and why methane abatement is the fastest available bridge toward the 1.5°C target.
EU Tweaks 2040 Climate Target to Include International Carbon Offsetting — July 2025
The EU’s decision to incorporate international offsets into its 2040 framework and what it means for ITMO-eligible abatement projects.
Nationally Determined Contributions Aren’t Just Technical Climate Pledges — July 2025
The political and financial architecture behind NDCs — and why coal mine methane abatement should be embedded within them.
Why Policymakers Must Prioritize Methane Reduction in the Coal Sector — July 2025
The policy case for elevating coal mine methane abatement from a compliance obligation to a funded priority.
E.P.A. Says It Will Eliminate Its Scientific Research Arm — July 2025
The regulatory implications of EPA cuts for methane monitoring, reporting, and enforcement in the United States.
Country Focus
Historic Shift: China’s Solar Capacity to Surpass Coal in 2026 — 4 February 2026
China’s energy transition milestone and what it means for the coal sector’s methane obligations going forward.
The Digital-Energy Paradox: Why ‘Green’ Data Centers Still Run on Coal — 11 February 2026
India’s data centre boom, fuelled by tax holidays until 2047, and the coal dependency it is entrenching.
Two Energy Strategies: China Builds, America Blocks — 3 February 2026
China added 356 GW of wind and solar in 2024 — 83% of its total capacity additions. A study in diverging energy policy.
2026 Alert: Abandoned Coal Boreholes in Australia Emit Methane Equivalent to 65 Million Cars a Year — January 2026
New research reveals the scale of Australia’s abandoned mine methane problem — and the urgent case for abatement investment.
Unseen and Unmentioned: The Venezuelan Methane Threat — January 2026
Venezuela’s oil and gas methane emissions — a significant source that receives almost no policy attention.
Beyond Combustion: Tajikistan’s Coal Sector and the High-Value Materials Opportunity — 20 January 2026
An emerging economy’s coal sector and the potential for methane capture within a broader resource strategy.
Nigeria Aims to Generate Up to $3 Billion Annually in Carbon Markets — January 2026
Nigeria’s carbon market ambitions and the role methane abatement could play in generating high-integrity credits.
Coking Coal Will Continue to Be Operational for Decades — December 2025
The structural reality of coking coal demand and its implications for long-term methane abatement investment.
China’s Fossil Fuel Power Plants Set for Rare Decline — December 2025
The structural shift in China’s power sector and its implications for coal mine methane strategy.
The Challenge of Phasing Out Coal in China — December 2025
Why China’s coal phase-out will take decades — and why methane abatement is the immediate priority.
Asia’s Coal Transition Requires a Methane Strategy Beyond Plant Closures — December 2025
Why closing coal plants is not enough — methane from operating and abandoned mines must be addressed separately.
India Plans Coal Expansion Through 2047 — December 2025
India’s coal dependency and the methane abatement opportunity it represents over the coming decades.
India’s Coal Dependency: A Thriving Ecosystem That Defies Climate Ambitions — December 2025
Analysis of India’s coal sector growth trajectory and the gap between climate commitments and energy reality.
South Africa’s Invisible Climate Problem — December 2025
Coal mine methane emissions in South Africa remain largely unmonitored and unaddressed.
NSW Approves Methane Destruction Pilot at Coal Mine — December 2025
Australia’s first state-level approval of a VAM destruction pilot — a significant regulatory step forward.
Poland Is Navigating Complex Challenges in Its Energy Transition — December 2025
Poland’s coal-dependent economy and the methane abatement opportunity within its transition framework.
This Holiday Season, Let’s Champion Turning Coal Mine Methane from a Climate Liability into a Valuable Resource — December 2025
The economic reframe: coal mine methane not as a waste product to be managed, but a resource to be monetised.
The Hidden Methane Threat Beneath U.S. National Parks — November 2025
Abandoned wells and geological seepage beneath protected land — a methane source almost entirely absent from policy discussion.
Carbon Markets Can Turn Cleanup into an Opportunity — November 2025
How carbon credit revenues are transforming the economics of abandoned well and mine abatement in the United States.
As the Arctic Warms and Permafrost Melts — November 2025
The feedback loop between Arctic warming, permafrost methane, and the urgency of reducing industrial methane now.
Across the U.S., More Than One Million ‘Stripper Wells’ — Aging, Low-Producing Oil and Gas Wells — October 2025
The methane leakage problem from legacy infrastructure — a larger emissions source than widely assumed.
Another Report, Another Warning — and Another Blind Spot — October 2025
A pattern analysis of climate reporting that consistently flags methane but fails to follow through with abatement investment.
South Australia’s Remarkable Energy Transition: From 0% Renewables in 2007 to 73% in 2025 — October 2025
South Australia as a proof of concept for rapid renewable transition — and the methane legacy of its remaining coal infrastructure.
Two Abandoned Coal Boreholes in Queensland Are Leaking Methane Equal to 10,000 Cars — September 2025
Site-specific evidence of abandoned mine methane leakage in Australia — and what it means for the ACCU opportunity.
Europe’s Forgotten Climate Risk — August 2025
Abandoned coal mines and legacy oil infrastructure across Central and Eastern Europe as an underreported methane source.
Coal Is Slowly Exiting the Global Stage — July 2025
The long-term decline of coal — and why the methane it emits during that decline must be addressed, not ignored.
COP Coverage
COP30: Why Methane Succeeded Where Fossil Fuels Failed — December 2025
How methane became one of the few areas of genuine progress at COP30 in Belém.
The Methane Blind Spot at COP30 — December 2025
Despite progress, coal mine methane remained underrepresented in COP30’s formal methane commitments.
COP30 Was the COP of Action: Global Ambition Met Real Implementation on the Ground — November 2025
Assessment of COP30’s outcomes and the role of methane commitments in the final agreement.
At COP30: The Global Methane Status Report — November 2025
The Global Methane Status Report’s findings presented at COP30 and what they mean for the 2030 reduction target.
Global Methane Hub at COP30 in Belém, Brazil — November 2025
The Global Methane Hub’s programme at COP30 — events, commitments, and outcomes.
The Global Methane Hub Was Busy in Belém over the Weekend — November 2025
On-the-ground coverage of the Global Methane Hub’s events in Belém during COP30.
Critical Focus: Methane Mitigation at COP30 — November 2025
Pre-COP30 analysis of what methane advocates were pushing for and whether the outcomes delivered.
Can Methane Cuts Pull Us Back from the Brink of Climate Breakdown? Fiona Harvey, The Guardian — November 2025
Via Fiona Harvey, The Guardian. The science behind methane reduction as the fastest available climate lever.
Methane & Health: Transforming Methane Commitments into Community Protection — November 2025
The public health co-benefits of methane abatement and how they strengthen the policy case.
Methane Stories That Matter in Coal Mines and Oil & Gas Wells — November 2025
A curated overview of the most significant methane abatement stories from across the coal and oil and gas sectors.
The Global Methane Status Report Gives Us Reason to Hope — November 2025
Analysis of the Status Report’s findings and the pathways it identifies for near-term methane reduction.
Climate Week NYC: At a High-Level Solutions Dialogue, COP30 — September 2025
Coverage of the COP30 preparatory dialogue at Climate Week New York City.
EU’s Priorities for COP30 in Brazil — September 2025
The European Commission’s stated priorities heading into COP30 — and where methane sits within them.
NY Climate Week Opens Today — Tracking Methane — September 2025
A pre-Climate Week New York briefing on what the methane agenda looks like ahead of COP30.
TNFD Released the 2025 Status Report at Climate Week NYC — September 2025
The Taskforce on Nature-related Financial Disclosures 2025 Status Report and its implications for methane reporting.
Fireside Chats & Podcasts
The Invisible Threat — Fireside Chat with Justin Mikulka, Director of Communications, Oilfield Witness — 25 January 2026
How oil and gas operators are responding to the growing scrutiny of methane emissions from legacy infrastructure.
Fireside Chat with Pierre Schellekens, Director, European Commission — September 2025
EU methane regulation, enforcement timelines, and the Commission’s perspective on coal mine methane as a priority category.
Advancing the Energy Transition: The Role of Methane Strategies — Pierre Schellekens Pierre Schellekens — September 2025
Pierre Schellekens on the strategic role of methane abatement within the EU’s broader energy transition architecture.
Transformers Fireside Chat with Felicia Ruiz, Director, Coal Mine Methane and Strategic Partnerships, Clean Air Task Force — September 2025
Coal mine methane policy, the CATF’s advocacy strategy, and the regulatory gaps that need to close.
An earlier conversation with Felicia Ruiz on the policy architecture needed to scale coal mine methane abatement.
Transformers Fireside Chat with Felicia Ruiz (July 2025) — July 2025
Extended conversation with the Clean Air Task Force’s coal mine methane lead on project finance and policy barriers.
Fireside Chat with Sharon Wilson, Oilfield Witness — October 2025
Community-level monitoring of oil and gas methane emissions and the case for stronger enforcement.
Fireside Chat with Reid Calhoon, CEO, ClimateWells, Austin, Texas — November 2025
Marginal well methane abatement: the technology, the economics, and the market opportunity in the United States.
Breaking the Methane Code: Meet Carl Pope — Transformers Podcast — August 2025
Carl Pope on why the environmental movement has underestimated industrial methane — and what needs to change.
New Podcast from Transformers: Methane Matters with Carl Pope — August 2025
The launch of the Methane Matters podcast series — Carl Pope on the commercial and political case for abatement.
Unlocking the Power of Methane: Solutions for Climate Action — Transformers Podcast Richard Mattus & Sean Kidney — June 2025
Richard Mattus and Sean Kidney on the investment architecture needed to scale methane abatement globally.
Unlocking the Power of Methane (extended) — July 2025
An extended version of the methane investment discussion with a focus on green finance classification.
Energy Transition & Finance
2025 Was Another Record-Breaking Year for the EU’s Clean Electricity Transition — 24 January 2026
Wind and solar overtook fossil fuel generation in the EU for the first time — and what it means for the coal sector’s future.
The Energy Transition: Green Steel Is the Goal, but Interim Measures Matter — 25 January 2026
The steel sector’s dependence on coking coal and the methane abatement opportunity in the transition period.
Just Been Watching Landman on Paramount+. Great Show. Terrible Reality. — 25 January 2026
A cultural commentary on how the oil and gas industry is portrayed — and what the real methane story looks like.
Asian and Norwegian Shipping Dynasties Investing in Modern Sail Technology — December 2025
Sail technology as an analogy for pragmatic, engineering-led climate solutions that the market has been slow to adopt.
New IEA Analysis of the Energy System — December 2025
IEA findings on methane’s role in the energy system and the abatement opportunities identified across sectors.
U.S. Producers Exporting LNG to Asia and Europe — October 2025
The methane leakage profile of U.S. LNG exports and its implications for importing countries’ net-zero commitments.
The Clean Gas Paradox: LNG Is Marketed as a ‘Cleaner’ Fuel — September 2025
LNG is essentially methane — a greenhouse gas more than 80 times more potent than CO₂ in the short term. The clean gas narrative examined.
LNG Is Sold as the ‘Cleaner’ Fossil Fuel. The Data Tells a Different Story. — September 2025
Independent measurement data challenging the LNG industry’s low-emission claims.
Canada Is Moving to Double the Size of Its Largest LNG Terminal — September 2025
Canada’s LNG expansion plans and the methane leakage accountability gap in ‘low-carbon as possible’ claims.
Coal Methane Is an Unpriced Liability Hiding in Full View of Regulators and Markets — September 2025
The case for treating coal mine methane as a material financial risk — and pricing it accordingly.
The Methane We Don’t Talk About: Abandoned Oil Wells, Gas Wells, and Coal Mines — September 2025
The cumulative methane leakage from decommissioned infrastructure — a source that dwarfs many regulated emission streams.
Scientists Have Shown That U.S. Oil and Gas Drilling Sites Are Not Just Leaking Methane — September 2025
New research on co-emitted pollutants at U.S. drilling sites — and the compounding health and climate case for rapid abatement.
Busting Another Myth: How Much Mining Is Needed for Fossil Fuels Versus Renewables — September 2025
A data comparison that dismantles the ‘renewables require more mining’ argument frequently deployed in methane policy debates.
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