A Shared but Differentiated Responsibility
The Astra Project works across sectors, with a focus on climate solutions and implementation, to bridge key gaps that are challenging our collective response to climate change.
We are a climate program office focused on activating the most impactful levers of climate action.
The Astra Project works across sectors to build programs, launch initiatives, and structure investments to accelerate key climate solutions in the near term.
To stabilize the climate, the order of operations will matter greatly.
Understanding the most important climate “emergency brakes” is essential to align resources and action where they matter the most.
Methane mitigation, natural system restoration, ending deforestation, industrial decarbonization, energy efficiency, and tactically curbing fossil fuels are essential to stabilizing the climate and creating collective value.
Astra creates new models to align climate action across sectors - in alignment to these climate priorities. We do this to develop and accelerate the most impactful climate outcomes in the markets, contexts, and time frames in which they matter the most.
We Started With Methane.
Mitigating methane emissions is one of the most effective near-term actions for slowing atmospheric warming. Global methane emissions are responsible for one-third of current warming, and are mostly emitted by just a few critical sectors: energy, agriculture, and waste.
The solutions for methane mitigation and transformation are largely low-cost, ready for market, and effective - bringing Net-Zero ambitions within reach, if solutions are adopted at scale in key sectors.
Our Global Methane Program is designed to bring the private sector in closer alignment to the governments committed to the Global Methane Pledge, which has united over 170 countries in a commitment to reduce methane emissions by 30% by 2030. However, for countries to achieve this goal, the private sector – corporates, investors, and innovators – must be deeply engaged in deploying solutions.
The Global Methane Program maps private sector capacities for scale to the public sector commitments, and structures partnerships that are focused on the most effective and scalable solutions.
A Theory of Change for Methane Action
Tactically addressing methane emissions is the most effective tool for near-term climate stabilization.
Deeply Understand Sources of Methane and the Available Solutions
Nearly all anthropogenic methane is emitted by just three sectors. By understanding the most intensive sources of methane emissions in those sectors, and mapping the assets that are most problematic - and the solutions that can apply to them - we can more tactically invest and develop policies to have an outsized impact on methane-driven warming.
Create Coalitions and Position Solutions for Tactical Deployment
The majority of methane emissions are further concentrated in just a few countries, and a few dozen corporate actors. We bring together corporates, investors, governments and innovators to roadmap the most effective pathways for methane solutions to be tactically deployed and supported by capital and aligned policy.
Create Pathways for Solutions to Scale
Nearly all technological solutions for methane operate at either negative cost (they create positive economic potential) or can be implemented at less than $25/T CO2e.
By making the solutions for methane emissions widely accessible for adoption we can co-create templates for success, and uncover novel on-ramps for new stakeholders. We partner with corporates and investors to innovate models for capital deployment to accelerate the commercial adoption of methane solutions globally.
The Methane Reduction Intensives
We host curated, selective Methane Reduction Intensives to bring investors, corporates, innovators and the public sector together to identify pathways for methane emissions reduction and hold space for stakeholders to collectively roadmap solutions.
Our Methane Reduction Intensives are designed to build a new understanding of the potential impact of methane reduction, the available market-ready solutions, and deepen ambitions and partnership between capital, innovation and industry.
To date, Astra MRIs have occurred at New York Climate Week, COP28, the World Economic Forum, as well as at private and curated convenings globally.