Abstract
Climate Change and Cities: Challenges Ahead
Highlights
Specialty section: This article was submitted to Climate Change and Cities, a section of the journal
The complicated relationship between air pollution and climate change is primarily driven by greenhouse gases (GHGs) (Von Schneidemesser et al, 2015; Xu and Lamarque, 2018)
Particulate matter (PM) are associated with adverse health impacts (Heal et al, 2012) and have a circuitous climatic impact, as they can serve as cloud buildup nuclei and influence climate forcing as well as meteorological phenomena, e.g., dissipating or capturing inward irradiation (Williams, 2012; Von Schneidemesser et al, 2015; Maione et al, 2016)
Summary
Air pollution and climate change are inextricably linked in terms of (i) emission sources, (ii) climate characteristics and chemistry, and (iii) mitigation measures They both entail significant consequences for human health. Global temperature rise, drought, declining water resources, shrinking ice sheets, flooding and erosion in coastal areas, ocean acidification, rising sea levels, and increasing extreme weather events present irrefutable evidence of global warming (Figure 1) These global issues are seen as distinct problems in numerous fields of research and policy, they are inevitably connected, and any alleviation policy in one area could affect circumstances in another (Von Schneidemesser et al, 2015), requiring a holistic approach to solutions.
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