A Call to Action on Methane: an international dialogue hosted by the GMI

This GMI event aims to raise international awareness of critical need to reduce methane  and highlight opportunities for action to reduce emissions.

Preliminary Agenda

Welcome and Introductions

• Jonathan Wilkinson, Canadian Minister of Environment and Climate Change (invited)
• Helen Ryan, Associate Assistant Deputy Minister, Environmental Protection Branch, Environment and Climate Change Canada; Chair, GMI Steering Committee

Keynote address

• Michael S. Regan, Administrator, U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (invited)
  Methane Mitigation Policy to Achieve Climate Goals
• Fatih Birol, Executive Director, International Energy Agency (invited)
  Global Trends in the Energy Sector: Impact on Methane
• Olga Algayerova, Executive Secretary, United Nations Economic Commission for Europe (confirmed)
  Opportunity for Global Action on Methane: International Decade of Methane Management
• Fred Krupp, President, Environmental Defense Fund (confirmed)
  Importance of Action on Methane
• Drew Shindell, Chair, Scientific Advisory Panel of the Climate & Clean Air Coalition and Professor of Climate Sciences, Duke University (confirmed)
  Global Methane Assessment: Benefits and Costs of Mitigating Methane Emissions

Industry Panel Discussion and Moderated Question & Answer
  

• Moderator: Drew Shindell, Chair, Scientific Advisory Panel of the Climate & Clean Air Coalition and Professor of Climate Sciences, Duke University (confirmed
• Vicki Hollub, President and Chief Executive Officer, Occidental Petroleum (confirmed)
• David Newman, President, World Biogas Association (confirmed)
• Demetrios Papathanasiou, Global Director, Energy and Extractives Global Practice, The World Bank (invited)