Super Pollutant Workshop at Baku Climate Action Week

The super pollutant agenda reached new heights at COP28, with a non-CO2 Summit and the culmination of the Global Methane Sprint, resulting in unprecedented momentum for methane action. Recognizing the opportunity to build on this achievement, as well as Azerbaijan’s role in the COP Troika and as a recent signatory to the Global Methane Pledge (GMP), the Climate and Clean Air Coalition (CCAC), joint with the Clean Air Task Force (CATF), is hosting a dedicated COP29 Super Pollutant Workshop.  

Cutting emissions from super pollutants, including short-lived climate pollutants (SLCPs) such as methane, HFCs, black carbon, and ground-level ozone, as well as nitrous oxide and HFCs play a crucial role in implementing climate action and can avoid up to 0.6°C of global warming by 2050 while preventing millions of premature deaths each year.  

A Super Pollutant Workshop in the months ahead of COP29 is an opportunity to continue the significance placed on the climate and health agenda at COP29, building on the Declaration on Climate and Health to protect people’s health from growing climate impacts including air pollution, heat-related illness and death, and extreme weather events. This also supports the Roadmap to Mission 1.5°C, announced by the Climate COP Presidencies Troika, and supports the COP29 Presidency’s 14-point Action Agenda.   

Summary and Format

The COP29 Super pollutants Workshop will take place during the Baku Climate Action Week, under the auspices of the COP29 High-Level Champion.  

The technical sessions of the workshop will showcase presentations from experts and foster discussions with the participants. The three-hour workshop will build the case for super pollutants and the importance of addressing and mitigating them to achieve both climate and clean air goals. There will be three sessions focusing on: (1) Making the case for super pollutants, the science behind them, and their integration into countries’ NDCs; (2) Taking a closer look at super pollutants in the fossil fuel sector and the importance of fossil fuel regulations and enforcement; and (3) Tackling the methane emissions in the waste sector and the promotion of the COP29 Presidency’s Declaration - Reducing Organic Waste to support implementation of actions to deliver the Global Methane Pledge in this sector.

Objectives

• To build on the efforts and progress made on methane leading to a strong interest on super pollutants for COP29.
• To highlight the feasibility of mitigating super pollutants through different success stories in different countries.

If you have any questions about the event, please reach out to the CCAC Secretariat at secretariat [at] ccacoalition.org.