Institute for Governance & Sustainable Development (IGSD)

IGSD Stop-Dumping Resource Guide - Helping Address the Environmental Justice Problem of Exporting Poverty and Ozone and Climate Harm Friends and Colleagues, I am pleased to announce the release of the IGSD Resource Guide on Preventing the Dumping in Vulnerable Developing-Country Markets of Inefficient Cooling Equipment Using Obsolete Refrigerants. This is the fruit of long labor and reflects the work of champions worldwide. Shout out to Kofi Agyarko and Hubert Zan at the Ghana Energy Commission, and their colleagues (current and past) in the Ghana Ozone Unit and Ozone Units throughout Africa, for their work on behalf of Africa and the Earth. Also, I appreciate our partners at CLASP who are strengthening the evidence base associated with this dumping. Further, I am grateful to the UN Environment Programme Climate & Clean Air Coalition for their unceasing work in educating and addressing this problem and using this knowledge to address similar issues in other areas, such as exporting heavy-duty vehicles to the developing world. This environmental justice issue drew attention in the early 1990s with Montreal Protocol-community discussions on the “technology dumping” implications for developing countries of ozone-depleting technology phase-outs in developed countries. As indicated in the Resource Guide, the issue is now being discussed at policymaking levels around the world. It is also reflected in the preamble to the recently adopted European Fluorinated Gas (F-Gas) Regulation (paragraph 25). The IGSD Stop-Dumping Resource Guide Announcement is available here: https://lnkd.in/etqX9kxn Direct Link to the IGSD Stop-Dumping Resource Guide: https://lnkd.in/e4eSqVy9 Climate & Clean Air Coalition (CCAC) Resource Pages on Preventing the Dumping of Inefficient Cooling Equipment: https://lnkd.in/euKn3Ht6 Institute for Governance & Sustainable Development (IGSD) Stephen Oliver Andersen Rida Derder Kofi A. Agyarko Hubert Zan Climate & Clean Air Coalition CLASP Ana Maria Carreño Tapio Reinikainen FACE Intergenerational Justice

📣 BIG announcement Carbon Mapper has our first methane and CO2 detections from Tanager-1! Some of our early observations include: 🔹 A plume of methane from a landfill in Karachi, Pakistan 🔹 A plume of carbon dioxide from a coal-fired power plant in Kendal, South Africa 🔹 A plume of methane from an oil and gas facility in the Texas Permian Basin This is the culmination of years of effort by the philanthropically-funded coalition led by Carbon Mapper in partnership with Planet and NASA Jet Propulsion Laboratory, among others. The goal is to make emissions data available globally and actionable on a local scale to drive mitigation. These first emissions detections are a preview of what we're observing as we scale our efforts to pinpoint and quantify super-emitting sources globally. Emissions data from Carbon Mapper and other monitoring programs will be critical to helping governments deliver on the #GlobalMethanePledge and private companies cut emissions from multiple sectors. ➡️ https://lnkd.in/g6xvFB8r RMI, Arizona State University, High Tide Foundation, Grantham Foundation for the Protection of the Environment, Bloomberg Philanthropies, Children's Investment Fund Foundation (CIFF), Zegar Family Foundation. #CutMethane

The Minsky Moments are starting to tick away. https://lnkd.in/eWT82xzT

Methane may be invisible, but its impact is impossible to ignore. It’s a major driver of climate change and a sneaky precursor to Tropospheric Ozone. See what the CCAC are doing to fight this super pollutant. https://lnkd.in/eTMk7R47

The record-breaking warmth of 2023 may mark a turning point in our understanding and experience of human-induced climate change. But where does #methane fit into this moment?   Methane is the second most important greenhouse gas contributing to human-driven warming behind carbon dioxide. Together with zeroing out CO2 emissions, large reductions in methane emissions is essential to limit end-of-century warming to 1.5°C or 2°C with limited overshoot.   However, global methane emissions continue to rise. Many well-established approaches reduce anthropogenic methane emissions at their source (i.e., emissions mitigation), and accomplishing these reductions must remain a top priority. But given the urgent need to limit both near- and long-term warming, and the many barriers to achieving needed mitigation at scale, researchers have begun to explore the concept of atmospheric methane removal which has the potential to reduce warming quickly—if it can be perfected.   The NASEM Earth & Life Sciences Committee on Atmospheric Methane Removal just released the first major assessment of the potential and need for atmospheric methane removal, chaired by IGSD’s Dr. Gabrielle Dreyfus.   Read to learn more: https://lnkd.in/eQJhCn-V #ClimateChange #MethaneRemoval

N2O - No Longer the “Forgotten” Super Climate Pollutant Colleagues and Friends, I am writing to express gratitude for having had the opportunity to speak at the Climate Week event on 25 September, “Nitrous oxide: Science and governance of a forgotten super pollutant.” Thanks to the event hosts, New York University, particularly Dr. David Kanter, the Climate & Clean Air Coalition, particularly Head of Secretariat Martina Otto, and the Natural Resources Defense Council, particularly Dr. Richie Kaur. Thanks also to the other science and governance panel experts, and to the audience members who want to do their part to help address N2O emissions, the leading source of atmospheric ozone depletion and the third-largest driver of climate change. Please make sure you read Phil McKenna's article on the event in Inside Climate News from 26 September 2024 (please subscribe if you have not already!): https://lnkd.in/ebQhpnaJ   The event went a long way toward helping ensure that N2O is no longer a “forgotten” super pollutant and becomes a focus of climate and stratospheric ozone ambition and action! New York University Climate & Clean Air Coalition Natural Resources Defense Council (NRDC) Institute for Governance & Sustainable Development (IGSD) David Kanter Martina Otto Richie Kaur, PhD Phil McKenna

At the Climate & Clean Air Coalition’s Super Pollutant Ministerial 2024, ministers of the Partnership committed to stronger targets on super pollutants in their new NDCs, launched the Fossil Fuel Regulatory Programme & called for urgent action to cut methane, black carbon, HFCs, Tropospheric Ozone & N2O to slow warming and improve air quality. Read the Communique: https://lnkd.in/eMhe2Dh8