At a “Technical Expert Meeting”
during the October UN Climate Change Conference in Bonn (20 – 25 October)
governments, international agencies and companies agreed that there are many
ways to effectively curb so-called “non-C02 gases”, even if overall emissions
from these gases are expected to grow in the near future, the United Nations
Climate Change News Room, an organ of the United Nations Framework Convention
on Climate Change (UNFCCC) reports.
The “non-C02 gases” are methane,
nitrous oxide and hydrofluorocarbons (HFCs), which have a higher global
warming potential than carbon dioxide, and result from activities such as
agriculture, industry, waste and household appliances.
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| Image: FAO presentation: TEMs: Non CO2 gases |
Curbing the impact of these gases is one of the key areas with high potential to enable the international community to reach its goal of staying below a maximum global average two degrees Celsius temperature
rise.
The experts agreed that reducing
harmful non-CO2 gases has many benefits going beyond greenhouse gas reductions,
above all for human health. They also agreed that whilst carbon pricing can
play a role in reducing such gases, a priority should be put on reducing
particularly harmful industrial gases with the help of the Paris 2015 global
climate agreement.
Governments are currently looking at
how to raise ambition to tackle climate change before 2020, when this new
universal climate change agreement is to take effect.
Read here the full story including some highlights of the meeting.
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