At COP30, leaders spoke boldly about ambition, responsibility, and urgency. Yet their declarations revealed a familiar gap, one where strong political intent struggles to survive in the absence of equally strong financial architecture. Africa, once perceived as a region untouched by climatic extremes, is today warming faster than the global average. The consequences are seen in lives disrupted by drought and flood, livelihoods eroded by crop failure, which are witnessed by communities that have contributed almost nothing to the crisis now consuming them. Among the pollutants driving this warming is methane. It is responsible for nearly one-third of the global…