This year we made it a priority to meet with Ministers and leaders of organisations from around the world to discuss their vision for ambitious climate action. The message coming out of these regions, countries and sectors has been clear: the urgency for action cannot be overstated. Short-lived climate pollutants are a necessary area for action to achieve the Paris Agreement temperature goals and the 2030 Sustainable Development Agenda because:
- We need to close the emissions gap indicated by science through fast action – reducing methane, black carbon and HFCs, in addition to CO2, to cut the rate of warming in half by mid-century.
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Increased ambition in Nationally Determined Contributions means both in the implementation of the current ones, and in their revisions - including short-lived climate pollutants will also bring additional benefits for health and air quality.
- There is a strong economic case to reducing these pollutants.
- We have multiple examples of successful actions to follow.
As part of the UNFCCC Talanoa Dialogue submission process, Climate & Clean Air Coalition partners have launched a Statement & Joint Submission that sets out how to reduce the rate of near-term warming through fast cuts in short-lived climate pollutant emissions and avoid up to 0.6˚C of warming by 2050.
The statement is open to all countries and organisations for endorsement. Join us by endorsing it as soon as possible – we will submit it in October!
News highlights
Climate and Clean Air Coalition’s Talanoa statement calls for fast action on short-lived climate pollutants
Partners call on all countries and stakeholders to endorse the statement before COP 24 in Katowice, Poland this December.
Ministers push for increased climate ambition at special New York roundtable
On the sidelines of the UN General Assembly, Ministers and representatives from 12 countries and 7 organizations, discussed their vision for ambitious action to reach Paris Agreement temperature goals.
The 2018 Climate and Clean Air Awards winners
The awardees are a snapshot of efforts from every corner of the globe, every level of society, and across numerous sectors to reduce near- and long-term warming.
G7 Environment Minister’s meeting calls for targeted efforts to reduce short-lived climate pollutants
The meeting singled out short-lived climate pollutants as an area for urgent action and reduction opportunities to protect against climate change.
Step by step towards clean air in Kenya
Ministry of Health staff learn about household air pollution and how to quantify the health impacts from the use of traditional fuels for cooking and heating.
IAAF installs first stadium air quality monitor in Monaco
HSH Prince Albert II helped kick off the UN Environment / IAAF pilot programme that aims to have 1,000 monitors stationed in athletics tracks around the world.
Latin America and Caribbean countries look to maximise benefits from climate action
Leaders from the region discussed how integrating climate and air quality actions can help maximise national benefits and increase ambition to limit warming to 1.5˚C.
New partners
- Oxfam
Events
- New York Climate Week: 24-30 September - New York, USA
- Waste-to-Energy – an essential part of the circular economy: 27 September, 16:00CET - Online
- Working Group meeting: 8 - 12 October - Bangkok, Thailand
- ASEAN Countries meeting on soot-free transport: 11 - 12 October | Bangkok, Thailand
- WHO’s First Global Conference on Air Pollution and Health: 30 October-1 November - Geneva, Switzerland
- Clean Cooking Investment Forum 2018: 5-6 November - Kigali, Rwanda
Resources
The Climate & Clean Air Coalition’s “Talanoa Statement” expresses a commitment to lead global actions that can avoid 0.6 degrees Celsius of temperature increase between now and 2050, through...
The G7 Environment Ministers' meeting in Charlevoix, under Canada’s 2018 G7 Presidency, called for urgent action on climate and for accelerated concrete action toward a low-carbon economy....
The workshop aimed to build capacity amongst industry stakeholders and policy-makers on HFC alternative technologies, policies and standards; specifically, in the supermarket sector where...
Improved cookstoves are key technologies to initiate the transition to cleaner and more efficient fuels within the energy scale. To that end families will have to change certain habits....
News from the web
- This is absolutely unacceptable (op-ed by Christiana Figueres) - Washington Post
- Air Pollution: Know your enemy - UN Environment
- Pollution pushes Mongolia’s herders to reconsider city life - The Guardian
- Seoul Becomes First East Asian BreatheLife City - BreatheLife
- First Canadian BreatheLife city Vancouver races to be “greenest city in the world” - BreatheLife