Programs
Reducing methane pollution is a global challenge requiring collective international action, which is why GMH convenes policymakers, practitioners, scientists, philanthropists, and media to meet the moment. We fund grantees in over 200 countries, and our staff of over 40 is strategically positioned across 20 countries, including regional leads in Africa, Asia and Latin America.
Africa faces rapidly growing methane emissions from both agriculture and waste, driven by expanding urban populations and inadequate landfill infrastructure. Addressing these emissions is a major human development opportunity across the continent. GMH is helping partners improve emissions tracking systems, address financing gaps, and strengthen waste management infrastructure and practices through policy development, transparency protocols and locally led mitigation planning. The portfolios support continental institutions, cross country learning and expertise building platforms, civil society and people-centered movements, and better coordination between policy and financing vehicles. We partner with the African Center for Energy Policy and the Africa Union Energy Commission, advancing policy, regulation, and accountability on energy methane emissions across key producers. We also work with the Global Green Growth Institute to increase investment in low-methane, circular-economy, and energy pathways. We co-launched the No Organic Waste Initiative, a global effort to cut methane by scaling food recovery, composting, and circular economy solutions that reduce organic waste, improve food access, and employ waste workers. We’re also working with the Africa Rice Center to help farmers in 40 countries lower emissions while increasing yields of a crop critical to global food security.
Asia represents one of the world’s largest methane mitigation opportunities, with South Asia alone holding nearly 20 percent of the world’s cattle stocks while rapidly growing urban populations in countries like India, China, and Indonesia continue increasing waste and agricultural methane emissions. The region is also responsible for a high share of methane emissions from the energy sector. GMH is helping partners across the region address agricultural emissions, strengthen organic waste management systems, reduce methane emissions from landfills, and curb emissions from coal mines and oil and gas operations by improving access to high-quality methane data and MRV systems, generating evidence to inform stronger national methane strategies, building stakeholder capacities, and unlocking finance for scalable methane mitigation solutions. Through grantee partnerships and local engagement, GMH is actively working across Asia, from China, South Korea, and Japan to Indonesia, Malaysia, India, Pakistan, and Central Asia, to elevate methane mitigation as a critical climate action lever and the “emergency brake” that can help countries simultaneously advance climate goals and economic development.
Latin America and the Caribbean is home to more than a quarter of the world’s cattle and supplies over 40 percent of globally traded beef, making it one of the largest single opportunities for livestock methane reduction anywhere. Rapidly growing cities across Brazil, Mexico, Chile, Colombia, and Argentina face rising landfill methane emissions, while the region’s oil and gas operations remain a significant and under-measured source. GMH works with regional institutions and local governments to overcome policy, financing, and implementation barriers — strengthening methane data systems, supporting municipal waste solutions, and advancing low-emissions livestock practices. Through grantee partnerships including OLACDE, Reciclo Orgánicos, Instituto Pólis, the Global FoodBanking Network, Time2Graze and IICA, GMH is supporting methane observatories across Latin America and the Caribbean, scaling municipal organic waste recycling in Brazil and Chile, piloting food waste reduction and circular economy programs in Mexico and Ecuador and promoting sustainable livestock and rice production in the region.