Climate and Clean Air Coalition and the Clean Air Task Force Workshop on Addressing Super Pollutants

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.