Author(s): Kuylenstierna, J.; Hicks, K.
Year: 2008
In: 4 pages
Type: Policy brief
Centre:
York
Link to SEI author(s):
Kuylenstierna Johan
Hicks Kevin
Benefits of integrating air pollution and climate change policy
This policy brief shows how strategies to reduce the relatively short-lived black carbon, ozone and methane (a precursor of ozone formation and a potent GHG) will have immediate climate benefits, potentially avoiding key ‘tipping points’, as well as providing important air quality benefits.Current scientific evidence shows that air pollution and climate change policies must be integrated now to achieve sustainable development and a low carbon society.
The greenhouse gases already in the atmosphere commit the planet to a warming of over 2°C. Air pollution, in the form of aerosols, is reflecting enough sunlight to mask this committed global warming by about 40 per cent.
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