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Climate change and air pollution are strongly linked because policies intended to improve one will affect the other. One of the strongest links comes through anthropogenic aerosol, which is a significant air pollutant and has an important role in climate change. Although air pollution and climate effects are often considered separately, there are significant co-benefits that could be realized only through policies where both aspects are addressed simultaneously. This chapter discusses the links between aerosol as a pollutant and as a climate forcer, and how future changes in aerosol will be affected by policies in both spheres.Air pollution has been recognized as harmful for centuries and so the first environmental policies, starting in the 1950s, were to limit the emissions of air pollutants. National polices grew to become international treaties recognizing that pollution was not contained within national boundaries. Policies to limit climate change started in the 1990s and were international from the start, culminating in the Paris Agreement in 2015 to limit global warming to well below 2°C above preindustrial (approximately nineteenth century) temperatures. Combined policies to

Author

William Collins; Zbigniew Klimont

Publisher

Elsevier

Published

2022

Language

EN