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Primer on Short-Lived Climate Pollutants

Primer on Short-Lived Climate Pollutants

Primer on Short-Lived Climate Pollutants- Download Slowing the rate of global warming over the near term by cutting short-lived climate pollutants to complement carbon dioxide reductions for the long term The Institute for Governance & Sustainable Development’s mission is to promote just and sustainable societies and to protect the environment by advancing the understanding, development, and implementation...
Short-Lived Climate Pollutants

Short-Lived Climate Pollutants

Primer on Short-Lived Climate Pollutants”. IGSD. Feb. 2013. Remarks at the Climate and Clean Air Coalition To Reduce Short-Lived Climate Pollutants Initiative.” U.S. Department of State. 16 Feb. 2012.  United Nations Environment Programme (UNEP) , 2011, Near-term Climate Protection and Clean Air Benefits: Actions for Controlling Short-Lived Climate Forcers – A UNEP Synthesis Report.  Project Surya Near-term Climate Protection and...
Black Carbon

Black Carbon

Bounding the role of black carbon in the climate system: A scientific assessment Coal and Climate Change Facts”. Arlington, VA: Center for Climate and Energy Solutions. Reducing Transport Greenhouse Gas Emission”. OCED. 2010.  Climate Change and Greenhouse Gas Emissions”. EPA.  United States Environmental Protection Agency (EPA), March 2012, Report to Congress on Black Carbon United Nations Environment Programme (UNEP) and World...
HFCs

HFCs

United Nations Environment Programme (UNEP), 2011, HFCs: A Critical Link in Protecting Climate and the Ozone Layer – A UNEP Synthesis Report. Solomon S. et al., Persistence of climate changes due to a range of greenhouse gases, 107 Proc. Natl. Acad. Sci. (2010). Velders , Guus J. M. et al., 2009, “The large contribution of projected HFC emissions to future...
ASIA

ASIA

United Nations Environment Programme (UNEP), 2008, Atmospheric Brown Clouds: RegionalAssessment Report with Focus on Asia. Atmospheric Brown Clouds: Regional Assessment Report with Focus on Asia. Infrastructure in China Sustaining Quality Growth”. KPMG Global China Practice. 2013. Coonan, Clifford. “Beijing is left fighting for breath as pollution goes off the scale.” The Independent. 29 Jan. 2013. Institute of Public & Environmental...
Protocolo de Montreal

Protocolo de Montreal

United Nations Environment Programme (UNEP), 2012, Montreal Protocol and the Green Economy: Assessing the contributions and co-benefits of a Multilateral Environmental Agreement Molina, M., Zaelke, D., Sarma, K. M., Andersen, S. O., Ramanathan, V., and Kaniaru, D., Reducing abrupt climate change risk using the Montreal Protocol and other regulatory actions to complement cuts in CO2 emissions, Proceedings of...
UNEP

UNEP

CITY-LEVEL DECOUPLING, Urban resource flows and the governance of infrastructure transitions United Nations Environment Programme (UNEP) , 2011, Near-term Climate Protection and Clean Air Benefits: Actions for Controlling Short-Lived Climate Forcers – A UNEP Synthesis Report. United Nations Environment Programme (UNEP), 2011, HFCs: A Critical Link in Protecting Climate and the Ozone Layer – A UNEP Synthesis Report. United Nations Environment Programme...
Ozono

Ozono

Fahey D. & Michaele I. Heggin, 20 Questions and Answers about the Ozone Layer : 2010 Update (2010) http://ozone.unep.org/Assessment_Panels/SAP/Scientific_Assessment_2010/SAP-2010-FAQs-update.pdf Shindell, D. et al., 2012, “Simultaneously mitigating near-term climate change and improving human health and food security”, Science, N° 335, 6-20 JAN 2012, pp183-189. http://www.sciencemag.org/content/335/6065/183.abstract Wallack, J. S., & Ramanathan, V., The Other Climate Changers: Why Black Carbon and Ozone Also...
EPA

EPA

Climate Change and Greenhouse Gas Emissions”. EPA.  United States Environmental Protection Agency (EPA), March 2012, Report to Congress on Black Carbon United Nations Environment Programme (UNEP) and World Meteorological Organization (WMO), 2011, Integrated Assessment of Black Carbon and Tropospheric Ozone. U.S. EPA, Report to Congress on Black Carbon (2012). U.S. EPA, Reducing Black Carbon Emissions in South Asia: Low Cost Opportunities (2012).
Cambio Climático

Cambio Climático

Segunda Comunicación Nacional Connecting the Dots on Climate Change Op-Ed from James Hansen on his new study: Climate change is here — and worse than we thought This is What Global Warming Looks Like – 2012 Edition New paper (Hansen et al) documenting the connection between current extreme weather and climate change Trends in global...
The Need for Speed

The Need for Speed

Reducing Short-Lived Climate Pollutants Can Cut the Rate of Global Warming By Half and Arctic Warming by Two-Thirds for the Next 30 to 40 Years Summary. 17 July 2012. CO2 is responsible for 55 to 60% of radiative forcing. See Fig. 1. Fast and aggressive CO2 mitigation is essential to combat the resulting climate change....
Ártico

Ártico

Arctic Monitoring and Assessment Programme (AMAP), 2011, The Impact of Black Carbon on Arctic Climate, AMAP Technical Report, No. 4 2011 Fate of Mountain Glaciers in the Anthropocene The Impact of Black Carbon on Arctic Climate.