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About the Pledge

The Beyond Methane Pledge

Once promised as climate-friendly bridge fuel to advance the short-term energy transition, Liquefied Natural Gas (LNG) has proven to be anything but. 

Despite the evidence stacked against it, groups around the world continue to claim LNG is a climate-friendly alternative to traditional fuels. This is nothing more than greenwashing.

We need actors across the land-to-sea LNG infrastructure chain to reject LNG and other methane-based fuels as a climate solution. 

This is why we have collaborated with partners to bring the Beyond Methane Pledge to COP29 — a pledge to eliminate LNG in the shipping sector and sectors linked to it.  Sign the pledge.

Signing the Beyond Methane Pledge

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Your name will be publicly added to the list of signatories and/or champions of the pledge. For individual champions, you will have the option to be anonymous.

The Pledge

Liquified Natural Gas (LNG) and other methane-based fuels, such as bio-methane and e-methane, are not a climate solution. They are mainly composed of methane—a potent greenhouse gas responsible for approximately a quarter of global warming. LNG and methane-based fuels are dangerous for people and the environment from land to sea throughout their lifecycles, starting with production and ending with burning. For instance, fracking for LNG uses billions of gallons of water, contains thousands of chemicals, and harms local and Indigenous communities. Rising LNG production and use, enabled by greenwashing, is putting critical global climate targets at risk. LNG has no place in a sustainable future.

Where “use” includes its burning as a fuel, and where “enabling activities” include:

  • building, maintaining, or hosting infrastructure (for any point of the lifecycle);
  • financial contributions of any kind;
  • supporting or creating policies that give it a competitive advantage over zero-emission fuels; and
  • using or promoting language that excludes or contradicts:
    • the 20-year global warming potential of methane being over 80 times more potent than carbon dioxide; and
    • the well-to-wake detrimental social, health, environmental, and climate impacts of LNG and methane (throughout their lifecycle), including fugitive emissions.

The signatories of this pledge commit to stop any activities or plans that will expand the use of LNG and other methane-based fuels, immediately and no later than 2025. Signatories also commit to stop all LNG and methane-based fuel use and enabling activities (a complete phase-out) by 2030.

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Signatories:

The pledge can be signed by policymakers, cities, the shipping industry (such as ports and ship and cargo owners), relevant players in the supply chain (such as energy producers, utility suppliers and transporters), and investors and financial institutions.

Champions:

The pledge can be championed by signatories, as well as by individuals, communities, resident and advocacy groups, non-governmental organizations, researchers and academic institutions, journalists, and thought leaders. Champions are critical in mobilizing the masses to put pressure on the stakeholders above to sign the pledge and take immediate action against climate change. 

The pledge launched on August 1st with initial champions across the globe including: Pacific Environment, Clean Arctic Alliance, Transport & Environment, the Clean Shipping Coalition, Stand.earth, Opportunity Green, Solutions for Our Climate (SFOC), and Nature And Biodiversity Conservation Union (NABU). Hear from them in our Press Release here.

We encourage others to join us in championing this pledge. Add your name today!

The Global Methane Pledge is a voluntary international agreement at the country level with 158 participating countries (as of March 2024). While the Global Methane Pledge tackles all methane sources aiming for a 30% reduction by 2030, this Beyond Methane Pledge goes further, targeting complete elimination of LNG by 2030.

This focused approach, along with facilitating sub-national commitments, can significantly accelerate progress towards the global goal. Both initiatives offer avenues for impactful action – the Global Methane Pledge through a broad framework and the Beyond Methane Pledge by driving rapid change in specific sectors like shipping.

Check back soon to see who is leading the charge towards a sustainable shipping industry. Email [email protected] for more information about signing the Beyond Methane Pledge.

Pacific Environment
Clean Arctic Alliance
Clean Shipping Coalition
Transport & Environment
Stand.earth
Opportunity Green
NABU (Nature And Biodiversity Conservation Union)
Anglican Diocese of New Westminster
Christ Church Cathedral CATS
Cittadini per l’aria onlus
Climate Conversation Brazoria County
Leave it in the Ground Initiative (LINGO)
New Brunswick Anti-Shale Gas Alliance, Inc.
North American Climate, Conservation and Environment (NACCE)
California Institute of Environmental Design & Management (CIEDM)
Fridays For Future Ottawa

Andrew Dumbrille, Canada
Andy Gheorghiu, Germany
Anne Schreck, Canada
Annette Gielisch, Germany
Constance Dijkstra, Belgium
Corina Brutscher, Germany
Curtis Martin, Canada
David Pedersen, Canada
Elissama De Oliveira, Canada
Emiko Newman, Canada
Hanns-Jörg Rohwedder, Germany
Anonymous supporter, United Kingdom
Jane Welton, Canada
Anonymous supporter, US
Anonymous supporter, Italy
Lukas Leppert, Germany
Mari Piggott, Canada
Marianne Höppner, Germany
Anonymous supporter, Germany
Melanie U., Germany
Penelope Connell, Canada
Picard Guillaume, France
Sian Prior, United Kingdom
The Rev. Dr. Joyce Parry-Moore, Canada
Rachel Wang, Canada
Alysha Edelman, United States
Ashley Ouellette, United States
Bretton Little, United States
Caspian Hollow, United States
Cornelia Teed, Whatcom
David Quigg, Canada
Erh-yen To, United States
Eric Dallin, United States
James Mulcare, United States
Loki, United States
Lucian-Robert Negut, Romania
Mitchel, Canada
Ms Lilith, United States
Oliver Gosciniak, Germany
Pattie Squiqui, United States
Sharon Zvonar, Canada
Theresa Bucher, United States
Anonymous supporter, United States
Anonymous supporter, Germany
Anonymous supporter, Canada
Anonymous supporter, Canada
Anonymous supporter, United Kingdom
Anonymous supporter, United States
Anonymous supporter, United States
Anonymous supporter, Germany
Anonymous supporter, Alaska, United States
Anonymous supporter, Italy
Anonymous supporter, Germany
Anonymous supporter, United States
Anonymous supporter, United States
Anonymous supporter, United States
Jennifer T. Schultz, United States
Heather Guillen, United States
Anonymous supporter, United States
Anonymous supporter, Canada
Sofia A Montemayor-Thomas, United States
Terrill Maguire, Canada
Mark Hayduke Grenard, United States
Kevin Gallagher, United States
Susan Stout, Canada
Anonymous supporter, Austria
Anonymous supporter, Canada
Jeffrey Kaufman, Canada
Anonymous supporter, United States
Anonymous supporter, France
Bernadette Wylie, Canada
Anonymous supporter, United States

We invite organizations to make targeted commitments to specific actions that align with the goals of the Beyond Methane Pledge. By adopting one or more of the following commitments, organizations can contribute to reducing methane emissions from the maritime sector without signing the full pledge.

  1. We will not participate in or support Green Shipping Corridors that incorporate LNG or other methane-based fuels.
  2. We will not offer exemptions for required shore power use to vessels using LNG or other methane-based fuels.
  3. We will not offer financial incentives to vessels using LNG or other methane-based fuels.
  4. We will not incorporate LNG or other methane-based fuels as decarbonization solutions in sustainability, environmental, or climate plans.

To publicly commit to one or more of the above, please contact [email protected].

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