BENEFITS OF INTEGRATING BLACK CARBON INTO ENHANCED NDCS - Averting near-term warming,

for air quality • Black carbon emissions reduction contributes management) – so cross-departmental to local adaptation and water and food security collaboration can make it efficient to build – by reducing glacier melt, the impacts of emissions inventories and include black carbon extreme heat and minimising disruption to monsoon and weather patterns.3 mitigation in NDCs. [...] • Guidance and tools to support the integration • As a component of air pollution, black carbon of black carbon into enhanced NDCs is available significantly contributes to over 8 million premature deaths4 (see page 6). [...] • Tackling black carbon and it sources within NDCs aligns with the principles of the Paris Agreement on sustainable development and poverty eradication, the call to reduce emissions of non-CO2 pollutants in the COP28 decision text and will realise fast and localised benefits. [...] At ground level, black carbon darkens snow and ice causing it to melt faster, disrupts local ecosystems and impacts human health.8 2 WHY INTEGRATE BLACK CARBON INTO NDCS? MITIGATION Black carbon impacts • Black carbon significantly contributes to global warming, according to the IPCC Sixth Assessment Report (AR6)9, and influences global and regional surface temperatures.10 • Black carbon on snow a. [...] 3 ADAPTATION JUSTICE, DEVELOPMENT AND HEALTH Black carbon impacts Black carbon impacts • Reducing black carbon emissions can help • As a component of air pollution, black carbon communities to adapt to the climate crisis – turning significantly contributes to more than 8 million down temperature rise, reducing heat stress and premature deaths per year, including over 500,000 improving human and ec.