Reducing Emissions of Short-Lived Climate Pollutants

Perspectives on Law and Governance

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Short-lived climate pollutants (SLCPs), including methane, black carbon, hydrofluorocarbons, and tropospheric ozone, have become part of climate policy debates. Discussion has revolved around the potential of their mitigation to slow down global warming in the short term and bring about co-benefits, for instance, for air quality and public health.
This book provides the first comprehensive analysis of global SLCP law and governance. A diverse array of contributors delves into the science and evolution of the concept of SLCPs, analyses the legal and governance responses developed under various international and transnational arenas, and discusses selected sectoral case studies.
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Yulia Yamineva is Senior Researcher at the University of Eastern Finland Law School. She has published widely on international climate law and negotiations, and the science-policy interface in leading academic journals. She holds a PhD from the University of Cambridge and worked for the UN Climate Change Convention Secretariat and the International Institute for Sustainable Development.

Kati Kulovesi is a Professor of International Law at the University of Eastern Finland and Co-Director of the Center for Climate Change, Energy and Environmental Law. She holds a PhD from the London School of Economics and Political Science, and has published widely on international, EU, and national climate change law. She has also led several large multidisciplinary research projects, including the ClimaSlow project funded by the European Research Council to which this book relates.

Eugenia Recio is a Postdoctoral Researcher at the University of Eastern Finland Law School. She has extensively worked on international, Latin American and national climate law with a focus on biodiversity, forests and safeguards. She has published on these and other environmental subjects in leading academic journals.
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Introduction Reducing Emissions of Short-Lived Climate Pollutants: Perspectives on Law and Governance
   Yulia Yamineva, Kati Kulovesi and Eugenia Recio

1 Scientific Overview on slcp  s Characteristics, Impacts and Uncertainties
   Thomas Kühn, Harri Kokkola, Tuuli Miinalainen and Kari Lehtinen

Part 1
Global Perspectives on Law and Policy of  slcp  s
2 A Conceptual History of slcp  s
   Niklas Löther

3 The International Climate Change Regime Right Home for slcp   s?
   Yulia Yamineva and Veera Pekkarinen

4 Strengthening the Global Regulation of Hydrofluorocarbons under the Montreal Protocol
   Louise du Toit

5 The Regulation of Short-Lived Climate Pollutants under the Convention on Long-Range Transboundary Air-Pollution and Its Gothenburg Protocol
   Adam Byrne

6 The Climate and Clean Air Coalition A Voluntary Initiative for Climate and Air Quality
   Charlotte Unger

7 How to Tackle Short-Lived Climate Pollutants Regionally The Experience of the Arctic Council
   Timo Koivurova, Medy Dervovic, Mikael Hildén, Stefan Kirchner, Kaarle Kupiainen and Malgorzata (Gosia) Smieszek

8 From Bilateral Science Diplomacy to Wider Black Carbon Governance? Norwegian-Chinese and Finnish-Russian Initiatives
   Pami Aalto, Gørild Heggelund, Anna Claydon and Minna Hanhijärvi

Part 2
Case Studies of  slcp  Mitigation
9 Regulating Emissions from Cookstoves Global and National Approaches
   Tuula Honkonen and Alice Karanja

10 An Integrated and Inclusive slcp Strategy for Asia Recommended Policy and Institutional Reforms
   David D. Sussman, Eric Zusman and Matthew Hengesbaugh

11 Black Carbon Emissions in International Maritime Shipping
   Thomas L. Brewer

12 Tackling Black Carbon in Road Transport Towards Global Car Emission Standards
   Kateryna Holzer

13 Transnational Approaches to Controlling Methane Emissions from Oil and Gas Operations
   Tade Oyewunmi

  Conclusion The Past, Present and Future of slcp Law and Governance
   Yulia Yamineva, Kati Kulovesi and Eugenia Recio

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Academics, practitioners, postgraduate students in climate and environmental law and policy
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