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Beyond CO2: Mark Lawrence and Charlotte Unger on air pollution and climate change

Beyond CO2: Mark Lawrence and Charlotte Unger on air pollution and climate change

Forschungsinstitut für Nachhaltigkeit | Research Institute for Sustainability (RIFS) vor 8 Jahren

When atmospheric scientist Mark Lawrence visited Kathmandu nearly 10 years ago, he got sick from air pollution - really sick.

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When atmospheric scientist Mark Lawrence visited Kathmandu nearly
10 years ago, he got sick from air pollution - really sick. The
Scientific Director of the IASS talked to a local shopkeeper, who
told him he and many others also frequently had this horrible
cough. Years later this inspired Mark to get his colleague Maheswar
Rupakheti on board and start investigating and tackling the issue,
to improve both people's health as well as reduce the regional
climate impact. Learn more about short-lived climate forcing
pollutants from Mark and IASS researcher Charlotte Unger, who met
with the Climate and Clean Air Coalition CCAC at this year's
climate summit COP23 in Bonn.