India co-chairs Global Methane Initiative Steering Leadership Meeting

Global Methane Initiative(GMI)

A voluntary Government and an informal international partnership having members from 45 countries including the United States and Canada.

• The forum was created in 2004 to achieve a global reduction in anthropogenic methane emission through a partnership among developed and developing countries having economies in transition.
• India is one of the members since its inception and has taken up Vice-Chairmanship for the first time in the Steering Leadership along with USA.
• The Chairperson of the Steering Leadership is from Canada.