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This hybrid event at the World Health Organization Pavilion at COP26 will outline a new guide, providing practical advice for how countries can track air pollution and health benefits in their climate change measurement, reporting and verification (MRV) systems. It will also include insights and lessons from countries that have already integrated air pollution and climate change into their monitoring frameworks.
Air quality in Mexico City is poor and the skyline is often obscured by smog. Photo: stockcam / iStock / Getty Images.
This event will take place at the WHO Health Pavilion at COP26, Glasgow, but you can also join the event online here:
In 2020 and 2021, many countries enhanced their climate change mitigation ambition by integrating action on air pollutants into their updated nationally determined contributions (NDCs). Many others have committed to taking actions to reduce GHGs that will also implicitly improve air quality and human health, and contribute to meeting the recently updated WHO Air Quality Guidelines1. As countries move from targets to implementation, it is necessary to ensure that the local air pollutant and health benefits are robustly monitored, to ensure that they are being realized, as the NDCs are implemented.
This event will provide an overview of a new Initiative for Climate Action Transparency (ICAT)/Climate and Clean Air Coalition (CCAC) titled “Integrating Short-Lived Climate Pollutants and Air Pollution into Climate Change Monitoring and Transparency Frameworks: A Practical Guide”. This guide provides concrete steps for national planners to integrate air pollutant and health benefits into their monitoring and policy evaluation frameworks.
The session will also include presentations from CCAC and ICAT country partners, who will present their practical experiences and lessons of tracking progress on air pollution within their MRV frameworks.
Moderator: Dr Chris Malley, Stockholm Environment Institute, University of York
13:00 Welcome and opening
13:02 Opportunities for integrating monitoring and evaluation of climate change and air pollution, and practical guidance to achieve it
13:17 Setting targets and monitoring progress on actions on Short-Lived Climate Pollutant mitigation in Nigeria
13:27 Monitoring progress of Mexico’s black carbon NDC target
13:37 From targets to implementation: next steps in realizing Colombia’s black carbon target
13:47 Questions and Answers
13:57 Close
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Tool / The Low Emissions Analysis Platform (LEAP) is a powerful, versatile system for energy planning and climate change mitigation assessment.
Initiative / This initiative focuses on integrated analysis and planning for the mitigation of air pollution and greenhouse gases, including short-lived climate pollutants.
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Project / The project works with the Bogotá Environmental Agency to develop diverse pathways for air quality management.
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