Sentences with phrase «where black carbon pollution»

«That means that reducing emissions of these climate pollutants would provide rapid climate benefits, especially in the Arctic where black carbon pollution accelerates the melting of ice and snow,» said Erika Rosenthal, the Earthjustice attorney who was part of the author team for the UNEP / WMO assessment.

Not exact matches

A lot of folks, including myself, think that the recent melting of Arctic sea ice and rising Arctic temperatures is more attributable to Asian black carbon pollution than to CO2 and greenhouse gas warming (particularly since similar warming and sea ice melting is not seen in the Antarctic, where there is not a problem with soot pollution).

However, in India and China a lot of coal and biomass is burned in domestic settings where inefficient low - temperature combustion and a lack of pollution controls mean that the mix of emissions is much more complicated — carbon dioxide, of course, but also large amounts of carbon monoxide, black carbon and sulphates.