INTEGRATED ASSESSMENT OF AIR POLLUTION AND CLIMATE CHANGE FOR SUSTAINABLE DEVELOPMENT IN AFRICA

DISCLAIMERS The designations employed and the presentation of the material in this publication do not imply the expression of any opinion whatsoever on the part of the Secretariat of the United Nations concerning the legal status of any country, territory or city or area or its authorities, or concerning the delimitation of its frontiers or boundaries. [...] POLITICAL MANDATE OF THE AFRICA INTEGRATED ASSESSMENT OF AIR POLLUTION AND CLIMATE CHANGE FOR SUSTAINABLE DEVELOPMENT In 2019, during the Seventeenth Ordinary Session of the African Ministerial Conference on the Environment (AMCEN-17), African Ministers formally agreed to support the mitigation of short-lived climate pollutants (SLCPs) and the development of the Integrated Assessment of Air Pollut. [...] In 2022, at AMCEN-18, African Ministers restated their support of the Assessment and of measures to mitigate SLCPs: “Note the completion of the Integrated Assessment of Air Pollution and Climate Change for Sustainable Development in Africa and its report, in response to AMCEN decision 17/2. [...] Several countries content of fuels imported and sold and improve vehicle have embarked on projects to take advantage of the emission standards are already being implemented climate and economic benefits from improvements in in the East African Community (EAC), Economic the energy efficiency of refrigerators, air conditioners, Community of West African States (ECOWAS) and and other products and equ. [...] national reporting for the SDGs and allocate national • The development of an African transboundary budgets to implement the measures; enhance convention for the prevention and management cooperation with local governments and rural of air pollution, given the common problems and communities to promote alternatives to burning transboundary movement of polluted air in Africa and agricultural crop r.