Methane is the #1 greenhouse gas in terms of our short-term ability to limit climate change due to its faster decay in the atmosphere. For a global initiative to reduce methane emissions, we need to address a wide array of questions from scientific and technical issues to policy, enforcement, and equity considerations. The first step of the process will be to agree on a movement-wide first roadmap document. Below are, along with possible answers for ideation, some of these questions we will have to answer: 1. **Who are the major contributors to global methane emissions?** - Possible Answer: The major contributors include the agriculture industry (livestock and rice production), fossil fuels (coal mines, oil and gas industry), waste management (landfills, waste treatment), and wetlands. 2. **What are the most effective strategies to reduce methane emissions?** - Possible Answer: Strategies could include improving the efficiency of the fossil fuel sector, reducing methane emissions from livestock and rice production, increasing the recovery and recycling of methane from waste, and investing in research for more efficient ways to capture methane. 3. **How will reductions be measured and verified?** - Possible Answer: This might require the development of new, more precise measurement techniques, satellite monitoring, and a globally agreed-upon standard for reporting and verifying reductions. 4. **What policies need to be put in place to support methane reduction?** - Possible Answer: These could include stricter regulations on methane emissions, subsidies for methane capture and reduction technologies, carbon pricing or methane taxing mechanisms, and policies to promote sustainable agricultural practices. 5. **How will compliance be ensured?** - Possible Answer: Compliance could be ensured through a combination of domestic enforcement, international monitoring, sanctions for non-compliance, and incentives for surpassing targets. 6. **How will the agreement ensure fairness between developed and developing countries?** - Possible Answer: This could involve mechanisms like providing financial and technical support to developing countries to enable them to implement methane reduction strategies. It might also require considering differentiated responsibilities, taking into account the differing historical contributions to methane emissions. 7. **What are the potential social and economic impacts of reducing methane emissions, and how can these be managed?** - Possible Answer: While there may be job losses in certain sectors, new jobs might also be created in emerging industries. Measures could be put in place to retrain workers for new industries and to support communities that are negatively impacted. 8. **How will technological development and innovation be promoted and shared?** - Possible Answer: This might involve international collaboration on research and development, providing incentives for innovation, and mechanisms for sharing technologies across borders. 9. **What is the timeframe for achieving reductions, and what interim targets will be set?** - Possible Answer: The timeframe will need to balance the urgency of reducing emissions with the practicalities of implementing reductions. Interim targets could be set to keep countries on track and to allow for adjustments based on progress and new scientific findings. Starting from these first questions and ideas, we will have more detailed discussion and analysis to address the complexities of reducing global methane emissions, in order integrate all stakeholders as world citizens and open actors to ensure their commitment and collaboration to tackle the problem.