TY  - JOUR
AU  - Knut von Salzen, Cynthia H. Whaley
PY  - 2022//
TI  - Clean air policies are key for successfully mitigating Arctic warming
KW  - Atmospheric chemistry Climate-change mitigation
N2  - A tighter integration of modeling frameworks for climate and air quality is urgently needed to assess the impacts of clean air policies on future Arctic and global climate. We combined a new model emulator and comprehensive emissions scenarios for air pollutants and greenhouse gases to assess climate and human health co-benefits of emissions reductions. Fossil fuel use is projected to rapidly decline in an increasingly sustainable world, resulting in far-reaching air quality benefits. Despite human health benefits, reductions in sulfur emissions in a more sustainable world could enhance Arctic warming by 0.8 °C in 2050 relative to the 1995–2014, thereby offsetting climate benefits of greenhouse gas reductions. Targeted and technically feasible emissions reduction opportunities exist for achieving simultaneous climate and human health co-benefits. It would be particularly beneficial to unlock a newly identified mitigation potential for carbon particulate matter, yielding Arctic climate benefits equivalent to those from carbon dioxide reductions by 2050.
SN  - 2662-4435
UR  - http://dx.doi.org/10.1038/s43247-022-00555-x
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ID  - KnutvonSalzen2022
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