BRASILIA — Today, at the opening plenary of the 2025 Climate and Clean Air Conference (CCAC2025), the Global Methane Hub announced an additional $10 million in funding for the Climate and Clean Air Coalition’s (CCAC) Trust Fund, an initiative of the United Nations Environment Program (UNEP), marking a major step in accelerating investment in the fastest solution to curb global temperatures.
“Policy makers across the globe, scientists, corporations, and citizens are in a sprint to lower greenhouse gas pollution as the climate crisis worsens. Very few countries have been hit harder than Brazil with heat waves causing devastating impacts on the wellbeing of communities. This is just one of many urgent examples highlighting that effectively addressing climate change is not a distant, hypothetical problem. It’s about how we protect frontline communities right now,” said Marcelo Mena, CEO of the Global Methane Hub. “That’s why we’re proud to announce this new $10 million investment in one of our closest partners in cutting super pollutants like methane, the CCAC. Cutting methane emissions is a tangible, immediate solution that leads to lower rates of heat-related deaths, asthma, and other negative public health outcomes that are associated with the harmful impacts of climate change while also increasing economic efficiencies, job creation, and food security.”
The opening plenary showcased host country Brazil and highlighted the road to COP30 with a strong emphasis on super pollutants. It explored opportunities to strengthen climate and clean air action across all levels of government—from international to subnational—while emphasizing the power of collaboration. The conference is hosted by Brazil, a CCAC co-chair along with the UK. The CCAC is a partnership of over 200 governments, international organizations, and NGOs where the world meets to combat super pollutants to curb warming in the near term and reduce air pollution. Additional speakers included:
Mitigating short-lived climate pollutants like methane, black carbon, and Hydrofluorocarbons (HFCs) pull the emergency brake on rising temperatures, reducing warming faster than any other way. Countries like Brazil, the UK, US, Mexico, Chile, India, and China have committed to reducing air pollution, driving down emissions and contributing to healthier livelihoods. Methane can reduce 0.2C by 2045, at a total cost of $150 to $300 billion. The climate damage it would avert is around $9 trillion, meaning that investing in methane is a 60 time return on investment on climate damage alone.
The newly announced GMH funding is a two-year, $10 million grant to support eligible countries from Global South countries to develop plans, policies, and ambitions within their Nationally Determined Contributions (NDCs) to reflect increased methane reduction ambition. Critically, it also allocates resources to facilitate practical implementation on the ground, yielding concrete results and catalyzing further resources to expand impactful methane programming, in alignment with the countries’ social and economic objectives.
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The Global Methane Hub is a first-of-its-kind philanthropic alliance to support methane emissions reduction around the world. A super pollutant, methane is responsible for more than 45% of recent global warming. To reduce methane pollution for a chance to save our climate within our lifetime, Global Methane Hub organizes and unites governments, industry leaders, scientists, and nonprofit organizations across the globe to minimize methane pollution through technology and common-sense public policies and regulations.
Since 2022, the Global Methane Hub has catalyzed over $10 billion in methane reducing project investments by convening funders focused on addressing climate change, raised over $500 million in pooled funds from more than 20 of the largest climate philanthropies to accelerate methane mitigation worldwide, and strategically regranted $250 million to over 100 grantees conducting methane reduction work in 152 countries.
To learn more about Global Methane Hub, visit globalmethanehub.org.