The Climate and Clean Air Coalition to Reduce Short-Lived Climate Pollutants (CCAC) aims to catalyse rapid reductions in short-lived climate pollutants to protect human health, agriculture and the environment. WHO has been a CCAC partner since 2013.
The Coalition’s Health initiative is working to make urban air pollution an urgent health and development priority. By improving air quality, cities and countries can reduce the health costs from air pollution-related diseases and support sustainable growth. Actions to reduce air pollution can also bring added climate benefits, as many of the air pollution sources are also heavy emitters of short-lived climate pollutants (SLCPs), such as black carbon and methane, as well as carbon dioxide.
The Health initiative is led by a diverse group of state partners, non-state partners and civil society stakeholders that bring different perspectives and expertise. Working through our respective organizations and agencies, we are looking to build on the momentum of existing sustainability initiatives, focusing on our shared interest to protect public health. Traditional practitioners play a particularly important role in reaching high-risk and vulnerable populations.
To support measures that will improve public health immediately and for future generations, the initiative will also work with the Coalition’s sector initiatives - promoting cleaner heavy-duty diesel vehicles, improved management of municipal solid waste, reducing open waste and agricultural burning, cleaner brick production and domestic cookstoves.