About 2

Key highlights 2

Executive summary 3

Chapter 1: A leadership model that stops at gas 7

  1.1 CLEAN: a buyer-led disclosure initiative 8

  1.2 Awareness without a mechanism inside JOGMEC 9

  1.3 Locked into coal with unverified methane 11

Chapter 2: The coal methane gap in steel sector emissions: visible, material, and unassigned 12

  2.1 The scale of the problem 12

  2.2 Measured, but in no one’s remit 15

  2.3 Coal mine methane emissions for steelmakers are hiding behind labels 17

Chapter 3: Envisioning the first disclosure cycle for coal mine methane for Japanese steelmakers 21

  3.1 Commercial relationships already exist 21

  3.2 Three things a first cycle would ask for 22

  3.3 What changes with data availability 23

  3.4 Importance of the next eleven months 25

Conclusion 27

  From data to accountability 27

  Supporting materials 29

  Methodology 29

  Acknowledgements 38