Annual report: 2021-2022

With our new 2030 Strategy the CCAC is building on a wealth of past achievements. A key achievement has been the Coalition’s support to developing countries to plan, build capacity, take action to reduce short-lived climate pollutants, and demonstrate the positive impacts these efforts have on the Sustainable Development Goals. As the CCAC begins to implement the 2030 Strategy, we call on all partners for their support. Supporting the CCAC will unlock much greater action for climate, air quality and development priorities and contribute to actions to achieving the Paris Agreement.

Peter Dery, Ghana | CCAC Co-Chair

This past year has set us up to deliver fast action and achieve our 2030 objectives together. We have expanded the partnership to help implement the goals of the Global Methane Pledge. We've raised $40 million for implementation of the CCAC's priorities. We've launched 48 projects to support national policy and planning and sectoral mitigation. We're moving faster. We need pick up the pace even more, because the topic requires that we work together at a faster clip to get to our shared objects for 2030.

Rick Duke, USA | CCAC Co-Chair

In 2021, CCAC partners adopted an ambitious but achievable 2030 Strategy to put the world back on path to achieving meeting the Paris Agreement goal of limiting temperature rise to 1.5 degrees Celsius.

In 2022, the CCAC began to deliver this strategy, increasing our focus on national action, supporting targeted sectoral interventions through our Hubs, and continuing to provide cutting-edge scientific research. New partners joined the Coalition, committing to reduce short-lived climate pollutants, and donors announced new contributions and pledges to support the CCAC Board’s $150 million goal.

In 2022, the CCAC kicked off its new “expressions of interest” process, collecting requests from 31 state partners to support national policy development and short-lived climate pollutant mitigation.

48 requests were developed into project concepts and announced through two competitive calls for proposals. 14 requests will be addressed by locally recruited national experts who will coordinate SLCP activities within the national government, and three through the CCAC’s Targeted Expert Assistance service. A third call for proposals to support delivery of the CCAC Hub Engagement Strategies closed in November 2022.

The CCAC, through our Scientific Advisory Panel and funding for research, continues to produce scientific assessments and guidance to underpin policymaking.

Major assessments released this year strengthened the case for reducing short-lived climate pollutants, including the Integrated Assessment of Air Pollution and Climate Change for Sustainable Development in Africa, which shows how African leaders can act quickly to fight climate change, prevent air pollution, and protect human health and the CCAC-UNEP Methane Baseline report, which highlights the benefits of achieving the Global Methane Pledge.

For the first time in nearly three years, CCAC partners met in person for our regular governance meetings and at key climate events. The first CCAC-GMI Global Methane, Climate, and Clean Air Forum in Washington D.C. renewed high-level policy, political, and scientific support for global SLCP ambition.

CCAC-hosted side events at Regional Climate Weeks in Africa and Latin American and the Caribbean demonstrated strengthened regional ambition for SLCP mitigation, as clean air topped global agendas.

Martina Otto took over as Head of the CCAC Secretariat in April 2022.  

Martina brings to the role over 25 years of experience in Environmental Policy and Programme Management, with a particular focus on energy, buildings, transport and sustainable cities, as well as partnership building. She is a fully qualified lawyer specialised in environmental law.