{"id":66877,"date":"2022-10-24T07:11:54","date_gmt":"2022-10-23T20:41:54","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.solarquotes.com.au\/blog\/?p=66877"},"modified":"2022-10-24T07:11:54","modified_gmt":"2022-10-23T20:41:54","slug":"australia-methane-pledge-mb2686","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.solarquotes.com.au\/blog\/australia-methane-pledge-mb2686\/","title":{"rendered":"Australia To Sign Global Methane Pledge"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-66878\" src=\"https:\/\/www.solarquotes.com.au\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/10\/global-methane-pledge-australia.jpg\" alt=\"Global methane pledge - Australia\" width=\"1200\" height=\"630\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.solarquotes.com.au\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/10\/global-methane-pledge-australia.jpg 1200w, https:\/\/www.solarquotes.com.au\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/10\/global-methane-pledge-australia-300x158.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.solarquotes.com.au\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/10\/global-methane-pledge-australia-1024x538.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/www.solarquotes.com.au\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/10\/global-methane-pledge-australia-768x403.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1200px) 100vw, 1200px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>After the Morrison Government failed to do so at COP26 last year, the Albanese Government has signalled its intention to sign on to the Global Methane Pledge.<!--more--><\/p>\n<p>Carbon dioxide gets a lot of attention in relation to climate change, but methane is a powerful greenhouse gas also driving global warming and weirding. The main sources of methane related to human activity in Australia in 2020 were:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Agriculture (48%)<\/li>\n<li>Fugitive emissions from coal (21%)<\/li>\n<li>Land use change &amp; forestry (12%)<\/li>\n<li>Waste ( 10%)<\/li>\n<li>Fugitive emissions from gas and oil (7%)<\/li>\n<li>Electricity, industry and transport (2%)<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>The <a href=\"https:\/\/www.globalmethanepledge.org\/\">Global Methane Pledge<\/a> was initiated last year. Countries committing to it agree to do their bit to collectively reduce global methane emissions at least 30 percent from 2020 levels by 2030. More than 100 nations signed up to it at launch. Australia &#8211; still under the Morrison regime at that point &#8211; wasn&#8217;t one of them.<\/p>\n<p>As SolarQuotes&#8217; Ronald <a href=\"https:\/\/www.solarquotes.com.au\/blog\/global-methane-pledge\/\">lamented at the time<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>&#8220;We weren\u2019t only faced with a clear moral choice. We also had to decide between acting sensibly and helping secure humanity\u2019s future or acting stupidly and unnecessarily, putting it at greater risk. Our leadership chose to be stupid.&#8221;<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>At the time of writing, 122 countries have committed to the Global Methane Pledge. While Australia still isn&#8217;t officially one of them, that should change very soon. Yesterday, Federal Minister for Climate Change and Energy <a href=\"https:\/\/www.solarquotes.com.au\/blog\/chris-bowen-climate-energy-mb2498\/\">Chris Bowen<\/a> said the Albanese Government <a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/chrisbowenmp\/posts\/pfbid02ARjxxH3pWwbGD2WpzTnVRg2HFuiW4GZjKYqTgD6rkZRE7oY8FfwHbo4TUWmDPMHBl\">was getting with the program<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>While Scott Morrison and Barnaby Joyce may be (somewhat) out of the way, the Opposition still hasn&#8217;t changed its off-key tune on the Global Methane Pledge.<\/p>\n<p>Earlier this month, <span class=\"x193iq5w xeuugli x13faqbe x1vvkbs x1xmvt09 x1lliihq x1s928wv xhkezso x1gmr53x x1cpjm7i x1fgarty x1943h6x xudqn12 x3x7a5m x6prxxf xvq8zen xo1l8bm xzsf02u x1yc453h\" dir=\"auto\">Leader of The Nationals and Shadow Minister for Agriculture David Littleproud <a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/littleproud4maranoa\/posts\/pfbid0LTwa9vSX69YTVAZNY42xqEX4g5vDHTZ4CdBXbvYBtmp8QiTfbAXHyJN34a57DQtZl\">said<\/a> such a move will hurt farmers and consumers. He claimed farmers would need to reduce their herd numbers and it will drive up the cost of Australians&#8217; grocery bills.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p>Opposition Leader Peter Dutton recently reportedly claimed signing the pledge would result in a &#8220;tax on cattle&#8221;. But <a href=\"https:\/\/www.abc.net.au\/news\/2022-10-23\/australia-joins-global-pledge-to-reduce-methane-emissions\/101567522\">Minister Bowen says<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>&#8220;Our approach will not involve new taxes, will not involve livestock reductions or arbitrary domestic targets.&#8221;<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Australia&#8217;s approach won&#8217;t be to just focus on agriculture &#8211; the Albanese Government says it will work closely with energy, resources, agriculture and waste sectors on sensible plans for methane emission reduction.<\/p>\n<h2>So, What Do Farmers Think?<\/h2>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/farmersforclimateaction.org.au\/\">Farmers for Climate Action<\/a>, which represents more than 7,000 farmers across Australia, welcomed the news.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>\u201cClaims that signing the methane pledge threatens farming need to be called out. Farmers deserve the security of a safe and stable climate in which to grow our food,&#8221; said CEO Dr Fiona Davis. \u201cFarm methane has been dropping while methane from the gas industry has been rising.&#8221;<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>The National Farmers Federation was also generally supportive.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>&#8220;For agriculture it will reinforce our demonstrated commitment to sustainability and ongoing access key markets as an export orientated sector,&#8221; <a href=\"https:\/\/nff.org.au\/media-release\/statement-on-australia-signing-the-methane-pledge\/\">said<\/a> NFF Chief Executive Tony Mahar. &#8220;Farmers are already leading the charge on climate action in Australia and have earned a seat at the table and the strong assurances and partnership provided by government mean the pledge will not negatively impact on farmers or the agriculture sector.&#8221;<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>After the Morrison Government failed to do so at COP26 last year, the Albanese Government has signalled its intention to sign on to the Global Methane Pledge.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":17,"featured_media":66878,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[678],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-66877","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-solar-battery-news","entry"],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO Premium plugin v27.2 (Yoast SEO v27.2) - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-premium-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>Australia To Sign Global Methane Pledge - SolarQuotes Blog<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"After the Morrison Government failed to do so at COP26 last year, the Albanese Government will sign on to the Global Methane Pledge.\" \/>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/www.solarquotes.com.au\/blog\/australia-methane-pledge-mb2686\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Australia To Sign Global Methane Pledge\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"After the Morrison Government failed to do so at COP26 last year, the Albanese Government will sign on to the Global Methane Pledge.\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:url\" content=\"https:\/\/www.solarquotes.com.au\/blog\/australia-methane-pledge-mb2686\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:site_name\" content=\"SolarQuotes Blog\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:publisher\" content=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/SolarQuotes\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:published_time\" content=\"2022-10-23T20:41:54+00:00\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:image\" content=\"https:\/\/www.solarquotes.com.au\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/10\/global-methane-pledge-australia.jpg\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:width\" content=\"1200\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:height\" content=\"630\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:type\" content=\"image\/jpeg\" \/>\n<meta name=\"author\" content=\"Michael Bloch\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:card\" content=\"summary_large_image\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:creator\" content=\"@solar_quotes\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:site\" content=\"@solar_quotes\" \/>\n<script type=\"application\/ld+json\" class=\"yoast-schema-graph\">{\"@context\":\"https:\/\/schema.org\",\"@graph\":[{\"@type\":\"Article\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.solarquotes.com.au\/blog\/australia-methane-pledge-mb2686\/#article\",\"isPartOf\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.solarquotes.com.au\/blog\/australia-methane-pledge-mb2686\/\"},\"author\":{\"name\":\"Michael Bloch\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.solarquotes.com.au\/blog\/#\/schema\/person\/66afd571aa00c2e442f0192ebac2f6f1\"},\"headline\":\"Australia To Sign Global Methane Pledge\",\"datePublished\":\"2022-10-23T20:41:54+00:00\",\"mainEntityOfPage\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.solarquotes.com.au\/blog\/australia-methane-pledge-mb2686\/\"},\"wordCount\":523,\"commentCount\":7,\"publisher\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.solarquotes.com.au\/blog\/#organization\"},\"image\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.solarquotes.com.au\/blog\/australia-methane-pledge-mb2686\/#primaryimage\"},\"thumbnailUrl\":\"https:\/\/www.solarquotes.com.au\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/10\/global-methane-pledge-australia.jpg\",\"articleSection\":[\"General Solar &amp; 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