Launched in 2015, the ZRF Initiative commits governments and oil companies, to end routine flaring no later than 2030. The Initiative aims to support cooperation between all relevant stakeholders so that solutions to gas flaring can be found through appropriate regulation, application of technologies, and financial arrangements. Read more >
Global flaring declined by 5% in 2020. Russia, Iraq, Iran, the United States, Algeria, Venezuela and Nigeria remain the top seven flaring countries for nine years running, accounting for two-thirds (65%) of all flaring.
We are now less than a decade away from the goal of Zero Routine Flaring by 2030, an ambition that sits at the nexus of climate change mitigation and energy policy.
