Fossil Fuel Regulatory Programme

The Fossil Fuel Regulatory Programme (FFRP), run by the CCAC and CATF, provides technical and regulatory support to up to 20 governments eligible for official development assistance between 2024 and 2027. The programme focuses on closing policy gaps to reduce methane emissions from the energy sector, offering services such as national inventory development via the Country Methane Abatement Tool (CoMAT), remote sensing capacity building, and leak detection and repair (LDAR) demonstrations. The FFRP explicitly excludes funding for private sector stakeholders or projects that extend fossil fuel operations. The document highlights that abating methane in the fossil fuel sector could avoid up to 0.1 °C of warming by 2050 and generate $260 billion in direct economic benefits by preventing premature deaths and crop losses.

• The Fossil Fuel Regulatory Programme (FFRP) aims to support up to 20 governments eligible for official development assistance from 2024 to 2027, focusing on capacity building, regulatory framework development, and monitoring, reporting, and verification (MRV) guidelines.
• Addressing methane emissions in the fossil fuel sector is critical for climate targets; doing so could avoid up to 0.1 °C of warming by 2050 in scenarios with higher fossil fuel demand. Furthermore, over 75% of methane emissions from oil and gas and 50% from coal can be abated using existing technology.
• Targeted methane abatement in the fossil fuel sector is estimated to provide approximately $260 billion in direct economic benefits by 2050 by preventing nearly 1 million premature deaths from ozone exposure, 90 million tonnes of crop losses, and 85 billion hours of lost labor due to heat.

APA

Clean Air Task Force (n.d.). Fossil Fuel Regulatory Programme. https://cdn.catf.us/wp-content/uploads/2024/09/19142448/CATF-Fossil-Fuel-Regulatory-Programme-1-Pager.pdf

Chicago

Clean Air Task Force. Fossil Fuel Regulatory Programme. n.d. https://cdn.catf.us/wp-content/uploads/2024/09/19142448/CATF-Fossil-Fuel-Regulatory-Programme-1-Pager.pdf.

Wikipedia

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BibTeX

@techreport{cleanairtaskforcendfossil, author = {{Clean Air Task Force}}, title = {{Fossil Fuel Regulatory Programme}}, institution = {Clean Air Task Force}, url = {https://cdn.catf.us/wp-content/uploads/2024/09/19142448/CATF-Fossil-Fuel-Regulatory-Programme-1-Pager.pdf}, urldate = {2026-10-23}, note = {Indexed by Climate Insights Directory} }