Short-Lived Climate Forcers (Chapter 6)

S Szopa, V Naik, B Adhikary, P Artaxo, T Berntsen… - 2021 - cambridge.org
Short‑lived climate forcers (SLCFs) affect climate and are, in most cases, also air pollutants.
They include aerosols (sulphate, nitrate, ammonium, carbonaceous aerosols, mineral dust …

[PDF][PDF] Mitigation pathways compatible with long-term goals

K Riahi, R Schaeffer, J Arango, K Calvin, C Guivarch… - 2022 - cgspace.cgiar.org
Chapter 3 takes a long-term perspective on climate change mitigation pathways. Its focus is
on the implications of long-term targets for the required short-and medium-term system …

[HTML][HTML] Acting rapidly to deploy readily available methane mitigation measures by sector can immediately slow global warming

IB Ocko, T Sun, D Shindell… - Environmental …, 2021 - iopscience.iop.org
Methane mitigation is essential for addressing climate change, but the value of rapidly
implementing available mitigation measures is not well understood. In this paper, we …

Deep mitigation of CO2 and non-CO2 greenhouse gases toward 1.5 °C and 2 °C futures

Y Ou, C Roney, J Alsalam, K Calvin, J Creason… - Nature …, 2021 - nature.com
Stabilizing climate change well below 2° C and towards 1.5° C requires comprehensive
mitigation of all greenhouse gases (GHG), including both CO2 and non-CO2 GHG …

Direct methane removal from air by aerobic methanotrophs

ME Lidstrom - Cold Spring Harbor Perspectives in …, 2024 - cshperspectives.cshlp.org
The rapid pace of climate change has created great urgency for short-term mitigation
strategies. Appropriately, the long-term target for intervening in global warming is CO2, but …

Path to net zero is critical to climate outcome

T Sun, IB Ocko, E Sturcken, SP Hamburg - Scientific reports, 2021 - nature.com
Net zero greenhouse gas targets have become a central element for climate action.
However, most company and government pledges focus on the year that net zero is …

Quantifying air quality co-benefits of climate policy across sectors and regions

T Vandyck, K Keramidas, S Tchung-Ming, M Weitzel… - Climatic Change, 2020 - Springer
The overlap in sources of greenhouse gas and local air pollutant emissions creates scope
for policy measures to limit global warming and improve air quality simultaneously. In a first …

A bibliometric analysis of the impact of COVID-19 social lockdowns on air quality: research trends and future directions

EM Aboagye, NAA Effah, KO Effah - Environmental Science and Pollution …, 2023 - Springer
Social lockdowns improved air quality during the COVID-19 pandemic. Governments had
previously spent a lot of money addressing air pollution without success. This bibliometric …

A roadmap to achieve the global methane pledge

CS Malley, N Borgford-Parnell… - Environmental …, 2023 - iopscience.iop.org
Abstract The Global Methane Pledge (GMP), launched in 2021 and signed by 149 countries
and the European Union, aims to reduce global anthropogenic methane emissions by 30 …

Air quality co-benefits of ratcheting up the NDCs

S Rauner, J Hilaire, D Klein, J Strefler, G Luderer - Climatic Change, 2020 - Springer
The current nationally determined contributions, pledged by the countries under the Paris
Agreement, are far from limiting climate change to below 2∘ C temperature increase by the …