Best Practice Guidance for Effective Management of Coal Mine

This guidance provides practical support for governments developing national systems to monitor, report, verify and mitigate methane emissions from coal mines.

It explains how effective monitoring, reporting and verification (MRV) programmes can improve national emissions inventories, strengthen understanding of coal mine methane sources and help identify priority mitigation opportunities.

The guidance provides practical considerations for designing national systems to systematically quantify and accurately report methane emissions from working and abandoned coal mines, covering both underground and surface mining.