Today, Spark Climate Solutions is proud to share our 2024 Annual Report, showcasing the significant progress we’ve made bringing emerging approaches to the table sooner and accelerating climate progress. Our 2024 work centered on unmitigated emissions sources of climate superpollutants, especially methane, towards our overall goal of accelerating progress on unsolved climate challenges. 

In 2024, our two programs, Livestock Enteric Methane Mitigation and Methane Removal, strengthened and grew these respective fields — funding and catalyzing research, growing scientific communities, increasing collaboration, building non-profit coalitions and partnerships, and advocating for further public funding support for science and innovation. We also ramped up work in two new seed areas — Transformational Agricultural Nitrogen Management Solutions and Warming-Induced Greenhouse Gas Emissions.

In 2024:

• The Spark Livestock Enteric Methane Mitigation program strengthened collaboration and action in the field working to address methane from ruminant systems by launching an industry association, designing an advance market commitment targeted to launch this year, steering research funding, introducing legislation, building policy coalitions, and growing and coordinating the field — all towards accelerating the pathway to being able to address this growing challenge already accounting for 25% of human-driven methane emissions.
• The Spark Methane Removal program significantly advanced the early work happening towards determining scientific and social feasibility of methane removal as another category of potential approaches—on top of crucial emissions reductions—to address the 0.5°C (and currently growing) of historical and ongoing methane emissions, including funding an additional $3.9M in scientific research across 14 projects, engaging with federal science agencies and lawmakers around the National Academies’ study on methane removal recommending $50-80m/yr in funding for the field, supporting early governance work, and engaging a growing community of scientists through workshops and conference sessions.
• Spark fostered the development of “Nitrogen 2.0,” a systematic rethinking of nitrogen use in agriculture, towards being able to more wholly address the high (1.6 GT CO2e) and growing agricultural nitrous oxide emissions, while also helping to spur forward the Climate and Clean Air Coalition Global Nitrous Oxide Assessment, for which Spark’s Principal Scientist, Eric Davidson, led a chapter.
• ‍Spark started engaging in the Warming-Induced Emissions field to bring additional scientific and policymaker focus to the near-term risks posed by growing emissions from natural systems as a response to climate change, as warming starts to feed more warming.

With the current overall climate trajectory and political climate we’re in, we believe that work on accelerating progress on unsolved climate challenges to be able to put more solutions on the table faster has never been more important. As a result of Spark’s leadership, alongside many others in these fields, we have seen increased interest in and acknowledgment of the need for the development of new climate solutions. Given our climate trajectory, expanding efforts in under-addressed areas now can significantly accelerate the timeline to additional mitigation potential. We’re thankful we’ve been able to build a world-class team to drive interdisciplinary field progress in these spaces.

We are energized by the progress we made in 2024 and have been building on that momentum in 2025. To learn more about Spark Climate Solutions, read our Annual Report here.

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