Impacts of a climate change initiative on air pollutant emissions: Insights from the Covenant of Mayors.

ABSTRACT: The Covenant of Mayors (CoM) is a successful European initiative which encourages local authorities to be proactive in fighting climate change. Recently, it expanded to cover adaptation and energy access/poverty and became a global initiative. In this study we investigate an additional perspective: synergies and trade-offs between climate and air quality. Signatories pledge to reduce their Greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions and voluntarily report their emissions, energy consumption and the measures that they carry out to reach their goals. We develop a methodology to estimate air pollutant emissions corresponding to CO₂ emissions CoM signatories report, using information they already submit and national estimates of air pollutant emission factors. The methodology is applied to over

SUBMITTER: Peduzzi E 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC7569603 | biostudies-literature | 2020 Dec

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature