‘Air Pollution and Climate Change’ issue of Science for Environment Policy now online
Both climate change and air pollution pose serious threats to human well being and the environment and both are high on the policy agenda. There is ever-growing evidence that integrating the two policy areas would increase the benefits for both, providing win-win results. For example, climate change mitigation actions can help reduce air pollution, and clean air measures can help reduce GHG emissions leading to reductions in global warming. There are also trade-offs between the two policy areas, which could be reduced by careful planning. The articles in this issue offer easy-to-read summaries of key studies which explain the relationship between air pollution and climate change, with recommendations for how policies could be integrated. They cover topics including: • What are the costs and benefits of combining air pollution and climate change policy? • How does air pollution increase under a warming climate? • What health benefits arise from combined air pollution and climate change policies? While air quality in the EU is improving, continued efforts are needed. The EU’s Sixth Environment Action Programme sets the objective of achieving air quality that does not give rise to unacceptable impacts on, and risks to, human health and the environment. At the same time, actions to reduce greenhouse gases are planned, which include increasing the use of renewable energy sources, such as wind, solar and hydro. Coordinating policies such as these could help ensure they strengthen each other’s efforts and avoid unintended trade-offs. Science for Environment Policy is a free news service designed to strengthen links between environmental research and policy. ‘Air pollution and climate change’ is the twenty-fourth in a series of special Thematic Issues which take an in-depth look at issues high on the policy agenda. It is guest-edited by Dr Kathy Law of LATMOS (Laboratoire Atmosphères, Milieux, Observations Spatiales), France. In addition to monthly special issues, subscribers to Science for Environment Policy receive a weekly news alert by email covering a range of environmental research. All news alert articles and Thematic Issues can be viewed on the service’s website: http://ec.europa.eu/environment/integration/research/newsalert/index_en.htm(se abrirá en una nueva ventana) To subscribe to the service, simply send an email to sfep@uwe.ac.uk with the subject line ‘Subscribe SfEP’. Science for Environment Policy is published by the European Commission’s DG Environment and has 12,000 subscribers. It is edited by the Science Communication Unit at the University of the West of England. ENDS
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