Barriers and Solutions to Scaling-up Methane Finance

Methane mitigation is severely underfunded, with current annual spending at only 10% of the $119 billion required to keep global warming below 2 degrees Celsius. The report identifies structural barriers, including a lack of donor prioritization, absence of dedicated funding windows, and a shortage of bankable project pipelines in developing countries. It recommends that development finance institutions designate methane 'champions', that donor governments increase funding for project preparation, and that developing nations create enabling policy environments to attract private investment.

• There is a massive funding gap for methane mitigation; while $119 billion is needed annually across the agriculture, energy, and waste sectors to limit warming to 2 degrees Celsius, current spending is only 10% of that amount, leaving a gap of $107 billion.
• Methane mitigation is significantly underfunded compared to other climate efforts; in 2019 and 2020, it received less than 2% of international climate finance, and the renewable energy sector received 26 times the investment allocated to methane abatement.

APA

Davis, S., & Siegel, K. (2023). Barriers and Solutions to Scaling-up Methane Finance. Clean Air Task Force. https://cdn.catf.us/wp-content/uploads/2023/06/28103015/methane-finance-report.pdf

Chicago

Davis, Stacey, and Kait Siegel. Barriers and Solutions to Scaling-up Methane Finance. Clean Air Task Force, 2023. https://cdn.catf.us/wp-content/uploads/2023/06/28103015/methane-finance-report.pdf.

Wikipedia

{{cite report |last1=Davis |first1=Stacey |last2=Siegel |first2=Kait |title=Barriers and Solutions to Scaling-up Methane Finance |publisher=Clean Air Task Force |date=June 2023 |url=https://cdn.catf.us/wp-content/uploads/2023/06/28103015/methane-finance-report.pdf |access-date=23 October 2026 |via=Climate Insights Directory}}

BibTeX

@techreport{davis2023barriers, author = {Davis, Stacey and Siegel, Kait}, title = {{Barriers and Solutions to Scaling-up Methane Finance}}, institution = {Clean Air Task Force}, year = {2023}, month = jun, url = {https://cdn.catf.us/wp-content/uploads/2023/06/28103015/methane-finance-report.pdf}, urldate = {2026-10-23}, note = {Indexed by Climate Insights Directory} }