What is Climate and Clean Air Coalition (CCAC)?
- The Climate and Clean Air Coalition (CCAC) is a voluntary partnership of governments, intergovernmental organizations, businesses, scientific institutions and civil society organizations.
- CCAC is committed to improving air quality and protecting the climate through actions to reduce short-lived climate pollutants.
- CCAC has a global network of 120 state and non-state partners, and hundreds of local actors carrying out activities across economic sectors.
- The genesis of CCAC can be traced in the Scientific Assessment Report released in 2011 by UN Environment and the World Meteorological Organization (WMO).
- The report found that measures targeting short-lived climate pollutants could achieve “win-win” results for the climate, air quality, and human well being over a relatively short time frame.
- Accordingly, in 2012, the governments of Bangladesh, Canada, Ghana, Mexico, Sweden and the United States, along with the United Nations Environment Programme (UNEP), came together and formed the CCAC.
- The purpose of formation of the CCAC was to initiate efforts to treat short-lived climate pollutants as an urgent and collective challenge to support fast action and deliver benefits on several fronts at once: climate, public health, energy efficiency, and food security.
Activities of the Coalition
- Training and institutional strengthening.
- Support for developing laws, regulations, policies and plans.
- Technology demonstrations.
- Political outreach.
- Awareness raising campaigns.
- Co-funding and catalyzed funding.
- Development of knowledge resources and tools.
Key Strategy of the Coalition
- 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.
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