Emissions of short-lived climate pollutants - such as black carbon, methane and hydrofluorocarbons (HFCs) - and associated emissions of greenhouse gases and air pollutants are harming millions of people around the world through their direct and indirect impacts on human health, agriculture, ecosystems, and the climate.
Compelling scientific evidence indicates that fast action to control these pollutants will achieve substantial, immediate climate and air quality benefits for communities around the world. Achieving this requires action at the national scale, as decision making is often made at the national level.
Rapid reductions in short-lived climate pollutant emissions can be achieved through the implementation of cost-effective measures through national policies, programmes and regulatory frameworks, such as those used to address air quality, climate change and sustainable development. The need for urgent action to address short-lived climate pollutants is now widely recognised, but support for national governments is needed to identify and promote the key measures that can bring rapid health and environmental benefits for their country, and global climate benefits.
The Coalition’s SNAP Initiative (Supporting National Action & Planning on Short-lived climate pollutants) is a collaborative programme aimed at supporting the efforts of Coalition partner countries to scale up action in a coordinated and prioritized way. This includes helping countries to identify and implement the most cost-effective pathways to large-scale implementation of mitigation measures that will reduce near-term warming while also improving air quality, human health and crop yields.
The SNAP initiative aims to address various challenges countries are facing to scale up action. These include:
The United Nations Environment Programme and World Meteorological Organisation (WMO) have identified a package of control measures to reduce short-lived climate pollutants that can achieve 90% of total potential emissions reductions for black carbon, methane and HFCs. Many of these measures involve cost-effective technologies and practices that already exist.
If quickly implemented, these measures can cut the amount of warming that would occur over the next few decades by as much as 0.6°C, while avoiding 2.4 million premature deaths from outdoor air pollution annually by 2030 and preventing 52 million tonnes of crop losses per year.
Many of the health, crop yield, ecosystem and climate benefits will be felt within the country where action is taken, which provides a strong rationale for taking action on short-lived climate pollutants at a national scale.
Short-lived climate pollutant emissions sources vary by country. Within SNAP initiative partner countries, locally important emission sources include: the parboiling of rice in Bangladesh, marine transport emissions in the Maldives, and the use of biomass stoves for heating in Chile. It is the function of the national planning process to identify the these sources and identify the most relevant actions.
The activities carried out by the initiative intend to help countries to:
The SNAP Initiative aims to support rapid and large-scale implementation of short-lived climate pollutant mitigation measures at the national level. Coalition partner countries have highlighted the need for programmes to help countries understand and assess the scope of national short-lived climate pollutant impacts, mitigation potential and the benefits of action.
The goal of the SNAP Initiative is to develop capacity within partner countries for effective national planning as a foundation for rapid and large-scale implementation of short-lived climate pollutant mitigation.
The initiative has three key objectives:
Since its launch in 2013, the SNAP Initiative has developed a methodology and set of tools to support countries in their planning efforts on short-lived climate pollutants. In 2018, major achievements were:
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