Climate and Clean Air Coalition
The Climate and Clean Air Coalition (CCAC) is a voluntary partnership of over 200 governments, intergovernmental organizations, and non-governmental organizations founded in 2012, and convened within UNEP.
Collectively and individually, partners who join the Climate and Clean Air Coalition are working to reduce powerful but short-lived climate pollutants (SLCPs) – methane, black carbon, hydrofluorocarbons (HFCs), and tropospheric ozone – that drive both climate change and air pollution.
We aim to connect ambitious agenda-setting with targeted mitigation action within countries and sectors. Robust science and analysis underpin our efforts. We support action to reduce short-lived climate pollutants in more than 90 countries through the funding of projects and the individual actions of our partners.
The partnership works to reduce global warming in the near-term to achieve Paris Agreement goals and support economic development, improved health, and environmental and food security benefits.
Through the CCAC Trust Fund, we fund projects in developing countries to enable actions that deliver climate, air quality and development benefits. Our project funding is split between national policy development and implementation of mitigation measures.
We provide secretariat functions of the Global Methane Pledge, and the coordination group of the Lowering Organic Waste Methane Initiative is housed in CCAC.
The Climate and Clean Air Coalition supports action to reduce short-lived climate pollutants in over 70 countries through our project funding and the individual actions of our partners.
We aim to connect ambitious agenda setting with targeted mitigation action within countries and sectors. Robust science and analysis underpin our efforts.
Our work is focused on five key areas:
National planning and policy development: We assist countries to develop policies that jointly address their climate and clean air objectives.
Our approach enables countries to identify actions that can be implemented at the lowest cost while having the greatest impact on the rate of near-term global warming, public health and wellbeing.
Sector mitigation: We help drive transformation in the main short-lived climate pollutant source sectors - agriculture, cooling, fossil fuels, household energy, transport and waste - by enabling collaboration between governments, industry and civil society on common goals and solutions.
Our projects support the development and enforcement of policies and regulations and demonstrate the feasibility of available solutions.
Science Policy: Our work is grounded in rigorous research and analysis of the causes and solutions to short-lived climate pollutants, as well as of the costs and benefits of implementing those solutions.
Political Leadership and cooperation: We bring leaders together to drive high-level ambition on short-lived climate pollutant mitigation.
By targeting decision makers across the spectrum of government, business, development banks and other key organizations, we aim to foster leadership and secure commitments for ambitious action.
Climate Commitments: We encourage countries to include short-lived climate pollutant targets in their Nationally Determined Contributions (NDCs) to the Paris Climate Agreement and support them to achieve these goals.
