2024 Beyond Methane Pledge

LNG is mainly composed of methane—a potent greenhouse gas responsible for approximately a quarter of global warming. LNG is dangerous for people and the environment from land to sea throughout its lifecycle, starting with production and ending with burning. Fracking for LNG uses billions of gallons of water, contains thousands of chemicals, and harms local and Indigenous communities. Rising LNG production and use, enabled by greenwashing, is putting critical global climate targets at risk. LNG has no place in a sustainable future.

Where LNG use includes its burning as a fuel, and where LNG-enabling activities include:

• building, maintaining, or hosting LNG infrastructure (for any point of its lifecycle);
• financial contributions to LNG of any kind;
• supporting or creating policies that give LNG a competitive advantage over zero-emission fuels;
• using or promoting LNG language that excludes or contradicts:
  • the 20-year global warming potential of methane being over 80 times more potent than carbon dioxide;
  • the well-to-wake detrimental social, health, environmental, and climate impacts of LNG and methane (throughout their lifecycle), including fugitive emissions;

The signatories of this pledge commit to immediately halt any activities or plans that will expand the use of LNG, and agree to end the current use of LNG by 2025 as well as any activities that enable the use of LNG by others by 2030.