regime Mitigation potential incentives and strategies Increased scientific and political attention What are short lived climate forcers Source UNEPWMO 2011 Integrated Assessment of Black Carbon and Tropospheric ID: 620729
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The role of short-lived climate forcers in the global climate regime
Mitigation potential, incentives and strategiesSlide2
Increased scientific and political attentionSlide3
What are short lived climate forcers?
Source:
UNEP/WMO (2011
)
Integrated Assessment of Black Carbon and Tropospheric
OzoneSlide4
Control
MeasuresSlide5
Global
benefits
Source:
UNEP/WMO (2011
)
Integrated Assessment of Black Carbon and Tropospheric
OzoneSlide6
The Role of Short-Lived Climate Forcers in the Global Climate Regime
Physical Potential
Regionality
Economic Potential
Interdisciplinary analysis of short-lived climate forcers in the global climate regime
Political
PotentialSlide7
Disaggregating
and
reaggregating
Global
China
Coal
mines
Cost-effective when all benefits are taken into account?Slide8
Killer Air
“It’s as if every man, woman, and child smoked 1.5 cigarettes each hour”
R. A. Muller, Berkeley Earth/U. Calif. BerkeleySlide9
A political opportunitySlide10
A role in the global climate regime?
CO2
important, but politically demanding
Short-lived climate forcers can help:
MobilizeImmediate results
Multiple benefits
Change negotiation dynamics
Demonstrate that global action on climate change is feasibleSlide11
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