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Translating Science into Action: The SLCP Challenge and Opportunity

Join the European Capacity Building Initiative and the Climate & Clean Air Coalition (CCAC) in reducing short-lived climate pollutants and mitigating their detrimental impacts on health, agriculture, and ecosystems.

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Translating Science into Action: The SLCP Challenge and Opportunity

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  1. ecbi european capacity building initiative initiative européenne de renforcement des capacités Climate & Clean Air Coalition (CCAC) To Reduce Short-Lived Climate Pollutants James Morris CCAC Secretariat for sustained capacity building in support of international climate change negotiations pour un renforcement durable des capacités en appui aux négociations internationales sur les changements climatiques

  2. Translating the Science into Policy and Action

  3. The SLCP Challenge and Opportunity • The main SLCPs are BC, CH4, tropospheric O3 and some HFCs: • Relatively short lifetimes in the atmosphere • Responsible for a substantial fraction of climate change • For some detrimental impacts on health, agriculture and ecosystems • 16 measuresidentified in UNEP reports for mitigating BC and CH4: • 2.4M lives saved globally each year (outdoor air pollution only) • 32M tonnes avoided losses from four major crops each year • Reduce global warming by 0.5°C by 2050 • No technical breakthroughs required • Half the reductions at low cost or cost-neutral • Additional measures with additional gains from mitigating HFCs (0.1°C by 2050) • Fast action on SLCPs can significantly increase public health, food and energy security, and reduce near-term climate change.

  4. Complementing CO2 actions SLCP actions need to be complemented by deep and rapid cuts in CO2 emissions if global mean temperature increase over the 21st Century is to be held below 2°C (UNEP/WMO,2011)

  5. SLCP Measures • HFCs • Non-HFC technologies for refrigeration • Low-GWP, high energy-efficient foam blowing technologies • Efficacy for cooling technologies • Methane • Degasification, recovery and use • Recovery from municipal waste & wastewater treatment • Reduce emissions from agriculture • Black carbon • Improve stoves (biomass to LPG/biogas, wood to pellet) • Upgrade brick kilns • Use particle filters for diesel vehicles • 16 measures: • No technical breakthroughs • Already implemented in many countries • Half reductions at low cost or cost-neutral • No ‘one-size-fits-all’ solution • Further R&D for effective and affordable alternatives and relevant infrastructure

  6. The CCAC • Leverage high-level engagement and political will, and catalyze action to address SLCPs as a global and collective challenge to protect the environment and public health, promote food and energy security, and address near term climate change • Voluntary, Partner-led Coalition: 91 Partners: 41 States, IGOs, NGOs and private sector • Science driven, action-oriented • Building on and bringing together existing efforts • Complementary to global efforts to reduce CO2 in particular under UNFCCC

  7. Partner-led Effort Coalition of the willing and the working! • Bring together many players • All Partners have endorsed meaningful action on SLCPs • High level of political support • All activities developed and led by Partners through a collaborative process

  8. High impact Initiatives • About USD 50 Million pledged and over USD 25 Million already allocated to specific activities under the initiatives

  9. Catalyzing Action CCAC Initiatives are strategic streams of work guiding collective and individual action of the CCAC Partners (not limited to activities funded by the CCAC) CCAC INITIATIVE • Key criteria: Long term goal, magnitude of SLCP reductions; comparative advantage of the Coalition; ability to complement, scale-up and accelerate existing efforts; and ability to catalyze new actions. • Partner-led: ultimate success depends directly on engagement and capacity dedicated by Partners Coordination, Development and implementation in accordance with CCAC decisions (SC/WG/HLA) Lead Partners supported by Secretariat Actors (not CCAC Partners) Other CCAC Partners

  10. More info: www.unep.org/ccac www.unep.org/ccac

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