The GMI Biogas Subcommittee focuses on building capacity within Partner Countries to leverage common interests across the areas of agriculture, municipal solid waste, and municipal wastewater. These interests include biogas energy use, the types of wastes managed, waste treatment technologies, and the potential for synergistic projects involving input streams from multiple sources. Efforts include developing and promoting tools, policy guidance, and project development resources at the national, state, and city level within Partner Countries.
GMI Technical Groups
Within the Biogas Sector, GMI maintains active technical groups in the areas of agriculture, municipal solid waste (MSW), and municipal wastewater. These groups provide international leadership to mitigate global methane emissions through the abatement, recovery, and use of methane. They promote collaboration between delegates from Partner Countries and Project Network members to build capacity, develop strategies, and expand opportunities for using methane as a renewable energy resource.
- Agriculture: Methane emissions come from livestock enteric fermentation, livestock waste management, rice cultivation, and agricultural waste burning.
- Municipal Solid Waste: Municipal solid waste management and treatment activities such as landfilling and anaerobic digestion are sources of methane emissions worldwide.
- Municipal Wastewater: Methane is produced when the organic material in municipal wastewater decomposes anaerobically.
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Purpose of the GMI Biogas Subcommittee
The Global Methane Initiative (GMI) Biogas Subcommittee works to reduce the impacts of climate change by providing international leadership to mitigate global methane emissions through the abatement, recovery, and use of methane from the agriculture, municipal solid waste, and municipal wastewater sectors.
- Promote the recovery, abatement, and utilization of methane produced by the agriculture, municipal solid waste, and municipal wastewater sectors.
- Encourage collaboration between Partner Countries and the Project Network to build capacity and develop strategies and markets.
- Work to remove barriers to methane mitigation project development.
Benefits of Participation
Partner Country delegates and Project Network members benefit from participating in the Biogas Subcommittee by:
- Networking with other professionals in the field of oil and gas methane recovery and utilization and developing government-to-government connections.
- Learning about new ideas and practical resources for managing and recovering methane in oil and gas systems.
- Obtaining feedback on country efforts, such as resources and policies under development, and information on current policies, practices, and resources.
- Increasing visibility by leveraging GMI as a platform for disseminating information about member country industry trends, efforts, resources, projects, and tools.
- Contributing to the agenda of Subcommittee meetings, with the option to host meetings.
- Collaborating on the development of strategies to reduce methane, and joint GMI tools and resources through co-authorship, review, translation, and dissemination.
Delegates
| Country | Delegate | Organization | Role |
|---|---|---|---|
| Argentina | Miguel Almada | Argentina - Ministry of Agriculture, Livestock and Fisheries | Delegate |
| Brazil | Alberto Rocha Neto | Ministry of Environment and Climate Change | Delegate |
| Brazil | Álife Boernerges de Oliveira Campos | Ministry of Environment and Climate Change | Delegate |
| Brazil | Mírian de Oliveira | Ministry of Environment and Climate Change | Delegate |
| Brazil | Sidney Medeiros | Brazilian Ministry of Agriculture and Livestock | Delegate |
| Canada | Andrew Vanderzaag | Agriculture and Agri-Food Canada | Delegate |
| Chile | Claudia Guerrero | Ministry of Environment of Chile | Delegate |
| China | Dong Baocheng | Rural Energy & Environment Agency | Delegate |
| China | Xu Haiyun | China Urban Construction Design and Research Institute | Delegate |
| Colombia | Jairo Homez | Ministry of the Environment and Sustainable Development of Colombia | Delegate |
| Cote d'Ivoire | Amin Dzamla-Gbo | Cote d'Ivoire Ministry of Agriculture and Rural Development | Delegate |
| Cote d'Ivoire | Kobenan Guilaume Sahode | Ministry of Salubrity, Environment and Sustainable Development | Delegate |
| Cote d'Ivoire | Tiangoua Kone | Ministry of Salubrity, Environment and Sustainable Development | Delegate |
| Denmark | Kristian Havskov Sorensen | Danish Energy Agency | Delegate |
| Denmark | Nathalie Jacobsen | Danish Energy Agency | Delegate |
| Dominican Republic | Federico Grullon | National Council for Climate Change and Clean Development Mechanism (CDM) | Delegate |
| Ecuador | Andrés Intriago | Municipality of Guayaquil | Delegate |
| Ecuador | Roberto Urquizo | Government of the Province of Guayas | Delegate |
| Ethiopia | Lemesa Hirpe Wari | Environmental Protection Authority - Ethiopia | Delegate |
| European Commission | Brendan Devlin | European Commission, Directorate General for Energy | Delegate |
| Finland | Birgitta Vainio-Mattila | Finland Ministry of Agriculture and Forestry | Delegate |
| Germany | Anja Schwetje | Germany Federal Environment Agency (UBA) | Delegate |
| Ghana | Daniel Tutu Benefoh | Environmental Protection Agency - Ghana | Delegate |
| Ghana | Godfred Fiifi Boadi | Ministry of Sanitation and Water Resources | Co-Chair |
| Ghana | Gyimah Mohammed | Ghana Ministry of Environment, Science, Technology and Innovation | Delegate |
| Ghana | Juliana Bempah | Environmental Applications and Technology Centre | Delegate |
| Ghana | Julius Cudjoe Ahiekpor | Kumasi Technical University | Delegate |
| Ghana | Kingsley Amoako | Ministry of Food and Agriculture | Delegate |
| Ghana | Letitia Abra-Kom Nyaaba | Environmental Protection Agency - Ghana | Delegate |
| Ghana | Mutala Mohammed | Institute for Sustainable Energy and Environmental Solutions | Delegate |
| India | Dinesh Dayanand Jagdale | India Ministry of New and Renewable Energy | Delegate |
| Indonesia | Ujang Solihin Sidik | Ministry of Environment of Indonesia | Delegate |
| Israel | Jenia Gutman | Israel Ministry of Environmental Protection | Delegate |
| Italy | Roberto Farina | Italian National Agency for New Technologies, Energy & Sustainable Economic Dev. | Delegate |
| Madagascar | Rila Albani Rakotomanana | Ministry of the Environment and Sustainable Development | Delegate |
| Montenegro | Igor Jovanović | Ministry of Ecology, Spatial Planning, and Urbanism | Delegate |
| Montenegro | Kemal Grbović | Ministry of Ecology, Spatial Planning, and Urbanism | Delegate |
| Nigeria | Edu Effiom | Cross River State Council on Climate Change | Delegate |
| Nigeria | O. A. Afolabi | Nigeria Federal Ministry of the Environment | Delegate |
| Peru | Berioska Quispe | Peru Ministry of the Environment | Delegate |
| Poland | Anna Bojanowicz - Bablok | Institute of Environmental Protection | Delegate |
| Poland | Joanna Darska | Poland Ministry of the Environment | Delegate |
| Poland | Paulina Kostrz - Sikora | THE POLISH GEOLOGICAL INSTITUTE - NATIONAL RESEARCH INSTITUTE | Delegate |
| Republic of North Macedonia | Ana Karanfilova Maznevska | Ministry of Environment and Physical Planning | Delegate |
| Serbia | Djordje Djatkov | University of Novi Sad | Delegate |
| Serbia | Dragana Mehandžić | Serbian Ministry of Environmental Protection | Delegate |
| Serbia | Goran Vujic | University of Novi Sad | Delegate |
| Sri Lanka | J.A.T. Dilhani | Sri Lanka Sustainable Energy Authority | Delegate |
| Türkiye | Erkan Karisli | ASKİ Genel Müdürlüğü | Delegate |
| Türkiye | Metin Turan | Yeditepe University | Delegate |
| Türkiye | Osman A. Arikan | Istanbul Technical University (ITU) | Delegate |