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.
The Astra Project is a climate program office focused on activating the most impactful levers of climate action.
We work across sectors to build programs, launch initiatives, and structure funding vehicles 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. 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 150 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 facilitates 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
By understanding the most intensive sources of methane emissions, and the solutions that can apply to them, we can more tactically invest and develop solutions to have an outsized impact per unit of investment.
Create Coalitions and Position Solutions for Tactical Deployment
We bring together corporates, investors, governments and innovators to roadmap the most effective pathways for solutions for methane emissions to be tactically deployed and supported by capital and aligned policy.
Create Pathways for Solutions to Scale
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 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.