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Globally, CO2 and other long-lived greenhouse gas emissions are key components that affect climate, but some of the more shorter-lived air pollutants also either warm or cool the climate on timescales depending on the species. Therefore, emission reduction policies from a climate perspective need to take into account the net effect of multiple pollutants (UNEP/WMO, 2011; Stohl et al., 2015). The pollutants considered to have most climate relevance are termed short-lived climate pollutants (SLCPs) or short-lived climate forcers (SLCFs), depending on the context. For example, the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change’s (IPCC) special report Global Warming of 1.5 C (IPCC, 2019) defined SLCFs to refer to both cooling and warming species that include methane (CH4), ozone (O3) and aerosols (including, black carbon, BC, organic carbon, OC, and sulfate) or their precursors, as well as some halogenated species. SLCPs refer only to the warming SLCFs (IPCC, 2019).
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Kupiainen, K., Flanner, M., Eckhardt, S. (2022). Climate Effects of Other Pollutants – Short-Lived Climate Forcers and the Arctic. In: Finger, M., Rekvig, G. (eds) Global Arctic. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-81253-9_9
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