Headline: Clean Air and White Ice: Governing Black Carbon Emissions Affecting the Arctic

This chapter is a joint effort by natural and legal scientists to make the case for the dramatic consequences black carbon (BC) emissions mainly from outside the Arctic region have on the Arctic ecosystem, and how BC has recently become the specific focus of a regime complex. The authors provide scientific knowledge about the sources, pathways, and climate impacts of BC emissions, and stress the special relevance of possible near-immediate climate benefits from BC emission reduction in the Arctic. Further consideration is given to the crucial importance of the governance responses to these opportunities and challenges. Thus, the second part of the chapter critically discusses the status and prospects of current multilateral BC emission reduction efforts in the context of the Arctic Council, the International Maritime Organization, and the Convention on Long-range Transboundary Air Pollution.

Publikationsjahr
2017
Publikationstyp
Monographien und Sammelwerke
Zitation

Cavazos Guerra, C., Lauer, A., & Rosenthal, E. (2017). Clean Air and White Ice: Governing Black Carbon Emissions Affecting the Arctic. In K. Keil, & S. Knecht (Eds.), Governing Arctic Change: Global Perspectives (pp. 231-256). Basingstoke, UK: Palgrave Macmillan.

DOI
10.1057/978-1-137-50884-3_12
Links
https://publications.rifs-potsdam.de/pubman/item/escidoc:1910932
Beteiligte Projekte
Modellierung der Luftqualität für Politikberatung Globaler Wandel und nachhaltige Transformationen in der Arktis (GloCAST) Nachhaltige Formen des ressourcenorientierten Wandels in der Arktis