Food Recovery to Avoid Methane Emissions (FRAME) Methodology

About Food Recovery to Avoid Methane Emissions (FRAME) Methodology:

• It quantifies the avoided emissions and co-benefits from redirecting food loss and waste to direct human consumption, through food recovery and redistribution operations.
• Developed by: It is developed by The Global Food Banking Network (GFN) in partnership with the Global Methane Hub and the Carbon Trust.
• The FRAME initially began as a pilot project in Mexico and Ecuador, where six community-led food banks were analysed. 
• The new FRAME tool will allow food banks, food recovery organisations, private sector companies, scientific experts, and others working in the food loss and waste sector to be able to accurately measure and manage emissions from food recovery and redistribution. 

Key facts about Global Methane Hub

• The Global Methane Hub is a philanthropic organization dedicated to reducing methane emissions globally and significantly boost philanthropic resources allocated specifically to methane reduction.
• It has donated $10 million to the Climate and Clean Air Coalition (CCAC) in an effort to financially assist 30 countries with developing plans to reduce their methane emissions. 

Q1: What is Methane?

It is the primary component of natural gas, and is responsible for approximately a third of the warming we are experiencing today. It is a colorless odorless gas, flammable water insoluble gas.It is also known as marsh gas or methyl hydride.

Source: Food banks can prevent GHG emissions equivalent to taking 900 cars off road for a year: Data