Climate accounting’s blind spot: why super pollutants demand a new metric
The Global Heat Reduction Initiative's Kiff Gallagher talks with Ian Welsh about 'Total Climate Accounting', a framework created by GHR to address critical gaps in current climate metrics by incorporating super pollutants like methane and black carbon.
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8 things to know about black carbon
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Why “short-lived” climate pollutants are anything but
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