The Astra Project: Methane Reduction Intensive
On Friday, September 22nd, The Astra Project is hosting a Methane Reduction Intensive, as part of Climate Week NYC. In partnership with FullCycle, Project Drawdown, Climatetech.org, Overview Capital, Palm Ventures Studios, the convening is an invite-only, half-day intensive focused on solutions implementation. Leaders from funds, corporates, non-profits and governments will be in dialogue to learn and participate in workshops focused on methane reduction.
Ahead of COP28 in Dubai, this intensive is designed to catalyze accelerated methane action by aligning solutions, investments and commercial adoption.
The convening will pose key questions to its participants to provoke action and spur cooperation for solutions implementation. How can the private sector play a more substantive role to reduce methane emissions? How can we create more enduring pathways for capital, innovation and policy to align for methane reduction? How can we incorporate further methane mitigation into existing climate and nature commitments?
9:00 - 9:15: Coffee and Networking
9:15 - 9:30: Welcome - The Astra Project
9:30 - 10:15 Panel 1: The State of Private Sector Methane Reduction
A discussion of how the private sector - corporates, investors, innovators - can most effectively meet and activate the governmental commitments made in the Global Methane Pledge.
10:15 -10:30: Networking and Coffee
10:30 - 11:15: Panel 2: Capital x Methane - Investing in Methane Mitigation
Exploring how to address the methane funding gap by discussing new models capital innovation - including new fund models - blended finance, IRA (and other) incentives, implementation strategies and increasing the volume of capital for methane action.
11:15 -11:30: [Networking and Coffee]
11:30 - 12:15: Breakout 1: Agriculture, Waste and Innovation
A breakout conversation regarding the most effective and innovative solutions in the agriculture and waste sectors, which together contribute nearly 60% of total anthropogenic methane emissions.
11:30 - 12:15: Breakout 2: Energy, Policy and Infrastructure
A breakout conversation providing an overview of both high and low-tech methane reduction solutions in the energy sector and the key unlocks that can scale them for deployment.
12:15 - 1:00: Integration: Meeting the Commitments and the Private Sector's Global Methane Pledge 2.0
