Our approach

The Climate and Clean Air Coalition supports action to reduce short-lived climate pollutants in over 70 countries through our project funding and the individual actions of our partners. 

We aim to connect ambitious agenda setting with targeted mitigation action within countries and sectors. Robust science and analysis underpin our efforts.

Our work is focused on five key areas.

We assist countries to develop policies that jointly address their climate and clean air objectives.

Our approach enables countries to identify actions that can be implemented at the lowest cost while having the greatest impact on the rate of near-term global warming, public health and wellbeing. 

We help drive transformation in the main short-lived climate pollutant source sectors - agriculture, cooling, fossil fuels, household energy, transport and waste - by enabling collaboration between governments, industry and civil society on common goals and solutions. 

Our projects support the development and enforcement of policies and regulations and demonstrate the feasibility of available solutions. 

Our work is grounded in rigorous research and analysis of the causes and solutions to short-lived climate pollutants, as well as of the costs and benefits of implementing those solutions.

We bring leaders together to drive high-level ambition on short-lived climate pollutant mitigation.

By targeting decision makers across the spectrum of government, business, development banks and other key organizations, we aim to foster leadership and secure commitments for ambitious action. 
 

We encourage countries to include short-lived climate pollutant targets in their Nationally Determined Contributions (NDCs) to the Paris Climate Agreement and support them to achieve these goals.