Fast Action to Reduce the Risks of Climate Change: U.S. Options to Limit Short-Lived Climate Pollutants

Short-lived climate pollutants such as soot, methane and hydroflurorocarbons (HFCs) account for 30 to 40 percent of global warming to date. Targeted efforts to reduce these emissions can slow the pace of global warming and moderate climate impacts already underway, including the melting of sea ice and glaciers. By reducing local air pollution, such measures would also produce substantial public health benefits and reduce crop losses, particularly in developing countries.

The attached link and factsheet (pdf) outlines ways to further reduce U.S. emissions of these short-lived pollutants.

https://www.c2es.org/document/fast-action-to-reduce-the-risks-of-climate-change-u-s-options-to-limit-short-lived-climate-pollutants/

Dear Aamal Ghazi

This is an important yet critical question. My answer is through stopping deterioration of the environment by (Man) immediately. Best regards.

Thank you Dr. Nabeel

HI

I think that we must do the followings

Put a price on carbon

Cutting emissions starts with clear policy signals.

Carbon pricing systems –A price on carbon is the single most important thing we have to get out of a Paris agreement. It will unleash market forces,” President Kim said when asked about expectations for the international climate agreement expected in December 2015 in Paris.

End fossil fuel subsidies

the evidence shows that fossil fuel subsidies are not at all about protecting the poor,” President Kim said. Studies show the wealthiest 20 percent of the population captures six times the benefit from fossil fuel subsidies as the poorest 20 percent.

Reforming subsidies is never easy. Often, the population is unaware of the true costs of energy, and support for the poor must be phased in as the subsidies are phased out. The World Bank is providing support for fossil fuel subsidies reform through a $20 million facility that will help countries design and implement subsidy reform and accompanying social protection systems.

Build low-carbon, resilient cities

Getting prices right is one part of the equation. Another piece is building a sustainable future, because all development happens in the context of climate change.

Increase energy efficiency and use of renewable energy

When we talk about energy, we have to talk about access. Worldwide, about 1.2 billion people lack access to electricity and 2.8 billion rely on solid fuels for cooking, such as wood, charcoal, and coal, which cause harmful indoor air pollution.

Implement climate-smart agriculture and nurture forest landscapes

The fifth area for action takes in both mitigation and adaptation. Climate-smart agriculture techniques help farmers increase their farms’ productivity and resilience to the impacts of climate change, such as droughts, while also creating carbon sinks that help reduce net emissions. Forests, too, are valuable carbon sinks that absorb carbon and store it in soils, trees, and foliage.

Thank you Dr. Furqan

Vital question. To reduce damages of climate change ,firstly we must to reduce emissions of greenhouse gases (GHG) such as soot, CO2,methane.. via reduce or ending usage of fossil fuels ,increase energy efficiency of classical power stations and use of renewable energy.Also,an important factors in this issue are the increase environmental awareness and applying environmental legislations .

Thank you Dr. Hassan

Greenhouses gases, such as carbon dioxide, trap heat in the atmosphere and regulate our climate. These gases exist naturally, but humans add more carbon dioxide by burning fossil fuels for energy (coal, oil, and natural gas) and by clearing forests. Greenhouse gases act like a blanket. The thicker the blanket, the warmer our planet becomes. At the same time, the Earth’s oceans are also absorbing some of this extra carbon dioxide, making them more acidic and less hospitable for sea life.

The increase in global temperature is significantly altering our planet’s climate, resulting in more extreme and unpredictable weather. For instance, heat waves are becoming more frequent and many places are experiencing record droughts followed by intense rainfalls.

Climate change considered as an extremely serious risk to society. That assessment might make sense since climate is projected to change over the next several decades faster than at any time in at least 10 000 years and would bring unprecedented climate conditions to human civilization. The physical characteristics of the planet, the biological resources on which society depends, and our social systems have developed over a long time in response to climate conditions we’re quickly leaving behind.

Even setting aside disagreement among experts over the likely consequences—and the inescapable uncertainty that disagreement reveals—climate change represents a difficult risk-management challenge. Policy responses necessarily integrate both scientific information and subjective value judgments. Science can inform us about the climate system and our relationship with it. But it can’t tell us whether to care more about our children and their children or about ourselves. Science can’t decide what is fair for different nations and peoples. It can’t resolve differences of opinion on the value of cultural heritage or nonhuman species. There is no clear path to agreement on any of those issues, and that lack of clarity sets up a complex and contentious policy debate.

. We could reduce our greenhouse gas emissions, an approach that is typically called mitigation.7 We could increase society’s capacity to cope with changes in climate, which is called adaptation.8 We could deliberately manipulate the Earth system in ways that might counteract at least some of the effects of increasing greenhouse gas concentrations. That kind of intervention is typically called geoengineering or climate engineering.9 We could also expand our knowledge base in ways that help us better understand the climate system, our sensitivity to climate change, and the other three risk-management strategies, which are more proactive.

https://www.worldwildlife.org/threats/effects-of-climate-change

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Thank you Dr. Mutasem

Thank you Dr. Dhia

Dear Aamal Ghazi

Climate change will have far-reaching impacts on crop, livestock and fisheries production, and will change the prevalence of crop pests. Many of these impacts are already measurable. Climate impact studies are dominated by those on crop yields despite the limitations of climate-crop modelling, with very little attention paid to more systems components of cropping, let alone other dimensions of food security. Given the serious threats to food security, attention should shift to an action-oriented research agenda, where we see four key challenges: (a) changing the culture of research; (b) deriving stakeholder-driven portfolios of options for farmers, communities and countries; (c) ensuring that adaptation actions are relevant to those most vulnerable to climate change; (d) combining adaptation and mitigation.

Best Regards

Dr. Malik N. Hawas

I think it is necessary to show people that caring for the environment is a religious obligation. If God has given humanity stewardship over the earth, then humans will be judged based on how well they have carried out that stewardship. Forcing people to think of harming the environment as sin is an effective way of rooting out such behavior.

Thank you Dr. Malik ,Dr. Monyer, and Krik

Fast Action to Reduce the Risks of Climate Change: U.S. Options to Limit Short-Lived Climate Pollutants

Short-lived climate pollutants such as soot, methane and hydroflurorocarbons (HFCs) account for 30 to 40 percent of global warming to date. Targeted efforts to reduce these emissions can slow the pace of global warming and moderate climate impacts already underway, including the melting of sea ice and glaciers. By reducing local air pollution, such measures would also produce substantial public health benefits and reduce crop losses, particularly in developing countries.

The attached link and factsheet (pdf) outlines ways to further reduce U.S. emissions of these short-lived pollutants.

https://www.c2es.org/document/fast-action-to-reduce-the-risks-of-climate-change-u-s-options-to-limit-short-lived-climate-pollutants/

Many ways exist to achieve significant reductions. Nevertheless, I think that one of the more important consists in the modeling and the elaboration of solution procedures to the tasks of optimal selection of the energy equipment for territories and it areas according available resources in the territories and renewable energetic equipment in the market. afterward will be needed the applications of the results. Among the criteria to be used must to be the pollution of the atmosphere. I am occupied right now, among other works, on the solution of this kind of tasks.

https://www.sei-international.org/reducing-climate-risk

Dear colleague,

Thanks a lot for the question. Thanks so much for all contributors. As a reasercher in environment field. I agree with all colleagues who are find the best and efficeint way for saving our life is to stop pollutant emmission. This is the task of all men , all women.

With my best regards!

Adel OUESLATI

Hi

I agree with Dr. Furqan.

Regards.

Thanks all

By my estimate a few years ago the CO2 emissions around the world are about 7 times the sustainable amount. Proposed remedies don't come close to a fix.

I am aware about most of the reasons of climate change and the means like global worming, leakage of ozone layer etc. from a few decade back. Some new reasons and means are identified in the mean time. That is related with overall environmental pollution also. Many of us heard about - how the condition can be changed. But no such active steps are taken to bring actual change. My friends argue with the points of population growth in the poor countries, modernization of lifestyle, national and international politics etc. We can find many excuses, but when will we start to function actually? Just before the day of end of the human civilization?

By planting more trees, reducing to emission of Carbon Di Oxide and conservation the environment.

All suggestions are valuable I agree with all of them I think we need to reduce our exposure to such climate as well.

Climate change will have far-reaching impacts on crop, livestock and fisheries production, and will change the prevalence of crop pests. Many of these impacts are already measurable. Climate impact studies are dominated by those on crop yields despite the limitations of climate-crop modelling, with very little attention paid to more systems components of cropping, let alone other dimensions of food security. Given the serious threats to food security, attention should shift to an action-oriented research agenda, where we see four key challenges: (a) changing the culture of research; (b) deriving stakeholder-driven portfolios of options for farmers, communities and countries; (c) ensuring that adaptation actions are relevant to those most vulnerable to climate change; (d) combining adaptation and mitigation.

Article Reducing risks to food security from climate change

The process of reducing the risks due to climate change depends on our proper use of materials, for example relying on cars that consume fuel properly or well

hello

In order to reduce the risks of climate change, it requires enormous costs in the implementation of buildings resistant to pollution and earthquakes, but the simplest solution is to prevent pollution and preserve the environment, starting from the great industrial countries that blinded greed and greed

regards

To reduce the risks associated with climate change, the basic requirement would be to identify all reasons / causes for this change, in a comprehensive way and then take measures to counter each one of them. Create and spread awareness like wild fire. These could be the long term measures.

Thanks all for your valuable answers

Reducing the risks of climate change is achieved by spreading awareness and environmental culture, and taking necessary precautions against these conditions

The risks from climate change can only be reduced by reducing/avoiding climate change itself - although the bosses of huge companies (and most of politicians) do not agree because of $$$.

Best Regards

Andreas

Dear Asmal,

I found yur question quite interesting, towards the question of Climate change.

As much as we try hard, as humans, to reduce the causes of climate change, this huge task seams somewhat unattainable...

In this sense, I find your proposal quite credible and plausible:

"What can we do to reduce the risks / consequences of climate change?"

Here's a proposal of preventive measures to "prevent" or cope with human effects of global warming:

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Short-lived climate pollutants such as soot, methane and hydroflurorocarbons (HFCs) account for 30 to 40 percent of global warming to date. Targeted efforts to reduce these emissions can slow the pace of global warming and moderate climate impacts already underway, including the melting of sea ice and glaciers.

By reducing local air pollution, such measures would also produce substantial public health benefits and reduce crop losses, particularly in developing countries. The factsheet outlines ways to further reduce U.S. emissions of these short-lived pollutants.

https://www.c2es.org/document/fast-action-to-reduce-the-risks-of-climate-change-u-s-options-to-limit-short-lived-climate-pollutants/

https://www.wur.nl/upload_mm/a/8/5/aae0abfa-f8af-49ec-a874-1bbe26fb5522_38_02_2017_Managing_risk%20draft%20final1.pdf

Managing risk and hazards in the face of climate change

Only the less developed nations are more worried about the phenomena. The fact is, Green house gases emission takes place in every offices, buses, cars, houses, hotels, in short everywhere as AC is used everywhere in advanced countries, however, those 3rd world countries are campaigning even to reduce the use of tube lights/electric bulbs forget about using refrigerator. Poor countries cant even afford to buy an air conditioner but worried too much about its effects. These green house effects, reduction of use of greenhouse gasses should be observed by all. It seems like poor man practicing to face the consequences of a rich man's mistakes. Sounds absurd.

Thanks all

Article Reducing risks to food security from climate change