Context: At the Climate and Clean Air Coalition's (CCAC) annual Climate and Clean Air Conference launched the Clean Air Flagship Initiative to mobilise the partnership and 'move the needle' on achieving clean air across the world by boosting cooperation and reducing pollutant emissions.
Clean Air Flagship
Clean Air Flagship aims to provide a platform to boost regional coordination and private sector engagement, data led policy action, financing, science & advocacy.
It is an initiative under Climate and Clean Air Coalition, convened by UNEP.
Aims of Clean Air Flagship Initiative are:
- Saving Lives: Supporting governments to achieve cleaner air as quicky as possible, consistent with improved air quality interim targets.
- Slowing climate change: Taking full advantage of win-win opportunities to reduce emissions of short-lived climate pollutants simultaneously with other harmful pollutants.
- Maximizing co-benefits: Improving agricultural productivity, economic development and overall quality of life.
Activities under Clean Air Flagship Initiative
- Amplify and strengthen regional and multi-level governance, cooperation and capacity on integrated climate and air quality management.
- Strengthen science communication to support policy action and fill critical information gaps, especially on economic cost and benefits of climate and clean air action and through integrated inventories, monitoring and air pollution modelling.
- Elevate air quality agenda through advocacy, by highlighting readily available solutions, providing capacity support for data and implementation and reinvigorating BreatheLife Network.
- Promote transparency to encourage private sector action on integrated climate and air quality management.
- Mobilise finance for air quality agenda by raising US$ 30-40 million through a Clean Air Sprint.
Actions under Clean Air Flagship in 2024
- Convene a Clean Air Task Team of all interested partners to guide the Flagship.
- Launch a knowledge platform for air quality managers and host national and sub-regional technical and advocacy workshops.
- Support country-driven projects on air quality including on National Clean Air and SLCP plans.
- Re-invest in BreatheLife and engage with key partners in a new campaign to be launched on Clean Air Day in 2024.
- Convene a series of Ministerials including a Joint Climate and Health Ministerial on the margins of WHO Global Conference on Air Pollution and Health.