Sustainability
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Certified Gas Program

Bloom is deeply focused on the social and environmental impacts of its projects. That extends to our supply chain where we have worked to take a pioneering position in the responsibly sourced or “certified” gas market, in collaboration with standards partners MiQ and Equitable Origin and responsible producer EQT.

Until sustainable alternatives become more widely available at scale, we need to ensure that the fuel sources we rely upon, like natural gas, have minimal climate impact. Reducing methane emissions from oil and gas operations is among the most viable and significant actions we can take in the near-term to help address climate change. Methane is a powerful greenhouse gas and leakages from the oil and gas industry contribute over 84 million tons¹ of methane to global emissions each year. While progress has been made over recent decades to curb methane emissions, 75 percent² of these emissions from oil and gas production can be technically eliminated today. Achieving methane reductions stemming from the oil and gas sector is the carbon equivalent of replacing 60 percent of the world’s coal-fired power plants with zero-emission generation according to MiQ³. So, how can we reduce methane emissions? One answer is to use responsibly sourced gas.

Producers of certified gas have been evaluated across a range of social, environmental, and governance criteria (including climate, community and labor issues). Once validated, these considerations or “attributes” can flow to downstream buyers attached to the underlying fuel, or “un-bundled” and acquired to be paired with fuel purchases from conventional sources as is done in other environmental commodity markets (e.g., Renewable Energy Credits). See our Most recent sustainability report for program updates and impacts.

¹ International Panel on Climate Change (IPCC)
² IEA.org – Methane Abandonment Options
³ MiQ data, sourced from EPA GHG calculator