Project

Climate and Clean Air Coalition to Reduce Short-Lived Climate Pollutants

Active project

2024–2027

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Brazil has demonstrated a strong commitment to addressing climate change and is set to welcome the world to Belém in 2025 for COP30, in which countries will present updated Nationally Determined Contributions (NDCs) to address climate change. Addressing Short-Lived Climate Pollutants (SLCPs) like methane and black carbon is a key way in which we can reduce global warming in the near term to avoid dangerous tipping points, alongside the urgent need for decarbonisation.

The Climate and Clean Air Coalition (CCAC) is the only global organisation dedicated to reducing SLCPs. Brazil joined the CCAC in 2023 and, with its support, is now taking steps to develop a national plan targeting SLCPS, including methane, black carbon, HFCs, and co-emitted air pollutants.

The Ministry of Environment and Climate Change (MMA) is leading the development of the national SLCP Plan. SEI is supporting MMA in developing the plan through stakeholder discussions, which will identify priority actions to reduce SLCP emissions. Additionally, technical analyses will evaluate how much these actions can reduce SLCPs and achieve multiple benefits for climate change, air quality, public health, and broader society.

The National SLCP Plan will include a set of priority actions which, if implemented, can help Brazil achieve its climate change target and improve the health of communities that take action.

Brazil and short-lived climate pollutants

This project builds on work over the past 15 years that SEI has undertaken to support over 25 countries in increasing their actions to reduce SLCPs. This includes work across Latin America, where countries have led in integrating SLCPs into national planning and decision-making, including within NDCs, National SLCP Plans, and air quality strategies.

The national SLCP plan developed in Brazil will outline the major sources of SLCPs in the country that need to be targeted to reduce emissions effectively. Through a broad stakeholder engagement process, including a public review period, the plan will identify actions that can be taken in those major source sectors that can reduce SLCPs, greenhouse gases and toxic air pollutants at the same time. This collaborative effort aims to align with climate change planning in Brazil, which has already included provisions to reduce SLCPs, e.g. within Brazil’s updated Nationally Determined Contribution presented at COP29.