Asia Pacific Countries Chart Course to Put Brakes on Short-Lived Climate Pollutants
CCAC, UNEP: Government representatives from 19 Asian countries begin meetings here today, hosted by senior environmental officials from Bangladesh and Japan, to look at ways to catalyse fast action to reduce the impacts of short-lived climate pollutants – so-called SLCPs – in the Asia Pacific region. SLCPs, such as black carbon or soot, methane, tropospheric ozone and some hydrofluorocarbons (HFCs), are responsible for a substantial fraction of both the warming experienced to date and the current rate of global warming and can be dangerous air pollutants, with various detrimental impacts on human health, agriculture and ecosystems. (Source: http://www.unep.org/ccac/News/CountriesChartCoursetoPutBrakesonSLCPs/tabid/105845/Default.aspx)