Climate and Clean Air Coalition (CCAC)
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Founded Since 2012
Company Description
About
The Climate and Clean Air Coalition is a voluntary partnership of governments, intergovernmental organizations, businesses, scientific institutions and civil society organizations committed to improving air quality and protecting the climate through actions to reduce short-lived climate pollutants.
Our global network includes hundreds of state and non-state partners, and hundreds of local actors carrying out activities across economic sectors.
“We value and appreciate the work of groups such as the Climate and Clean Air Coalition. We know that measures targeting short-lived climate pollutants can achieve win-win results for the climate, air quality and human wellbeing in a short amount of time.”
Patricia Espinosa
Executive Secretary, UNFCCC
HISTORY
A scientific assessment released by UN Environment and the World Meteorological Organisation (WMO) in 2011 found that measures targeting short-lived climate pollutants could achieve “win-win” results for the climate, air quality, and human wellbeing over a relatively short timeframe.
In 2012, the governments of Bangladesh, Canada, Ghana, Mexico, Sweden and the United States, along with the United Nations Environment Programme (UNEP), came together to initiate efforts to treat short-lived climate pollutants as an urgent and collective challenge. Together, they formed the Climate & Clean Air Coalition to support fast action and deliver benefits on several fronts at once: climate, public health, energy efficiency, and food security.
Today, the Coalition brings together hundreds of experienced and influential stakeholders from around the world to leverage high-level engagement and catalyse concrete actions in both the public and private sector.
VALUES
The combination of strong science, high level political will, and a range of cost-effective measures, allows us to take fast action to seize opportunities and achieve benefits for the climate and human wellbeing.
ACTION ORIENTED
The combination of strong science, high level political will, and a range of cost-effective measures, allows us to take fast action to seize opportunities and achieve benefits for the climate and human wellbeing.
COLLABORATIVE
Our broad partnership works to reduce short-lived climate pollutants, collectively and individually. Leadership and implementation within the Coalition is collaborative, and decisions are made by consensus.
COMMITTED
Participation in the Coalition is voluntarily. Our partners dedicate their time and energy to reducing short-lived climate pollutants in their work and engage with others to multiply their efforts.
GROUNDED IN SCIENCE
The Coalition takes action based on solid science. Our Scientific Advisory Panel keeps abreast of the latest science on short-lived climate pollutants and ensures we take the best course of action.
Our four core values drive our ambition, bring us together, and give our Coalition a sense of direction in our actions.
Our work
The Coalition helps partners and stakeholders create policies and practices that will deliver substantial reductions in short-lived climate pollutant emissions, starting now.
We support actions on the ground through our 11 Initiatives, Solution Centre and Action Programme to Address the 1.5°C Challenge.
APPROACH
The Coalition’s partners and initiative participants work in cooperation with key short-lived climate pollutant emitters and other stakeholders from around the world to encourage, enable and catalyze action to reduce emissions.
To achieve real and ambitious reductions, the Coalition focuses on four key strategies:
- Enable transformative action by providing knowledge, resources, and technical and institutional capacity to act and supporting the sharing of information, experience, and expertise
- Mobilize support for action to put short-lived climate pollutants on the policy map through advocacy at all levels of government and in the private sector and civil society
- Increase the availability of and access to financial resources to support the successful implementation of scalable, transformational action
- Enhance scientific knowledge to help decision-makers scale up action and promote the multiple benefits of action on short-lived climate pollutants
ACTIVITIES
The Coalition takes action through initiatives, which are partner-led and designed to provide transformative action in sectors or as cross-cutting efforts to reduce methane, black carbon and hydrofluorocarbons (HFCs).
These actions include:
- Training and institutional strengthening
- Support for developing laws, regulations, policies and plans
- Technology demonstrations
- Political outreach
- Awareness raising campaigns
- Co-funding and catalysed funding
- Development of knowledge resources and tools
CONTROL MEASURES
The Coalition’s activities follow sixteen control measures identified in a 2011 UN Environment and World Meteorological Organisation (WMO) assessment.
If implemented globally by 2030, these measures could reduce global methane emissions by as much as 40% and global black carbon emissions by as much as 80% relative to a reference scenario, preventing up to 0.5°C of warming. An additional 0.1°C could be avoided by replacing high-global warming potential hydrofluorocarbons with available low-global warming potential and not-in-kind alternatives within the same time frame.
These measures involve technologies and practices that already exist, targeting the primary sectors responsible for short-lived climate pollution emissions. Almost half of these measures could achieve net cost savings over their lifetimes, and many more could provide co-benefits for air quality, human health, ecosystems and food security.
Contact
The Coalition’s Secretariat is hosted by the United Nations Environment Programme (UNEP).
To reach us, write to secretariat@ccacoalition.org.
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