Integrating Air Pollution and Short-Lived Climate Pollutants into Climate Change Transparency Frameworks

There are clear benefits of integrating SLCPs and air pollutants into transparency frameworks developed in response to commitments on climate change through the Paris Agreement. 

Doing so acknowledges the impact of existing climate change plans on air quality, prioritises actions that have a meaningful impact on short-term warming, identifies additional mitigation actions that offer major environmental, public health, and socioeconomic benefits, and strengthen air quality management, in particular in countries where this is a nascent topic. 

This guide aims to provide planners and decision makers with a practical document to outline specific steps in which the integration of air pollutants and GHG emissions, and therefore SLCPs, into a single transparency framework can be achieved. It is also structured to differentiate between the major steps.