Benefits of Integrating Black Carbon into Enhanced NDCs

Cutting black carbon emissions is critical for averting near-term warming, supporting adaptation and promoting climate-resilient development. This policy brief gives governments guidance to integrate black carbon into their enhanced climate plans or nationally determined contributions (NDCs).Tackling black carbon and it sources within nationally determined contributions (NDCs) aligns with the principles of the Paris Agreement on sustainable development and poverty eradication, the call to reduce emissions of non-CO2 pollutants in the COP28 decision text, and will realise fast and localised benefits.