Short-lived climate pollutants

We assess the impacts of and work to reduce the levels of short-lived climate pollutants – such as soot, methane and ozone – in the atmosphere. These agents affect human health and contribute to global warming.

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Initiatives

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Carbon lock-in

Fountain at Pho Si Road/Udon Dutsadi Road roundabout, Udon Thani, Thailand

City health and wellbeing

Two women cook around a wood-burning fire in South Africa.

SEI’s Rob Bailis talks to Global Dispatches podcast about new research on cleaner cooking for the climate

Perhaps counterintuitively, some fossil-based cooking fuels are better for climate and health than the biomass fuels used by 2.4 billion people, research shows.

A tea kettle rests upon a stone bordering a wood-fired pit.

Novel research shows health, climate benefits of increasing access to electricity and gas for cooking in low- and middle-income countries

Expanding the use of LPG and/or grid electricity to replace biomass-fueled cooking in low- and middle-income countries benefits human health and climate.

“The air is killing us” – Chris Malley contributed to Pakistan’s Clean Air Policy

Chris Malley and Syeda Hadika Jamshaid writes about Pakistan’s first Clean Air Policy in an op-ed published in Pakistan's largest newspaper.

Side view of man sitting next to wood-burning stove in hut

Scaling up gas and electric cooking in low- and middle-income countries: climate threat or mitigation strategy with co-benefits?

A novel analysis shows the global climate and health benefits of switching biomass cookstoves in low- and middle-income countries to electricity and LPG.

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