Reducing Short-Lived Climate Pollutants: An International Response
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Date: 2013-02-04

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Speakers:
• Laura Haynes, Senior Environment and Energy Policy Advisor, Office of Senator Tom Carper (D-DE) - http://youtu.be/Z-HIfoWeN84?t=1m29s
• Dr. Drew Shindell, Climatologist, NASA Goddard Institute for Space Studies - http://youtu.be/Z-HIfoWeN84?t=8m32s
• Amy Fraenkel, Director, UNEP Regional Office for North America - http://youtu.be/Z-HIfoWeN84?t=23m
• John E. Thompson, Deputy Director, Office of Environmental Quality and Transboundary Issues, U.S. Department of State - http://youtu.be/Z-HIfoWeN84?t=34m30s
• Q&A - http://youtu.be/Z-HIfoWeN84?t=56m25s

This briefing addressed international efforts to reduce emissions of short-lived climate pollutants (SLCPs) to provide near-term climate change mitigation and improve public health and food security.

These pollutants -- including black carbon (soot), methane, tropospheric ozone, and hydrofluorocarbons (HFCs) -- have relatively short atmospheric lifetimes but a sizeable warming impact on the climate, particularly in the Arctic and other vulnerable regions. 

To coordinate a collective international effort to reduce emissions, the Climate and Clean Air Coalition to Reduce Short Lived Climate Pollutants (CCAC) was launched in February 2012 by UNEP and the governments of Bangladesh, Canada, Ghana, Mexico, Sweden and the United States.