Reducing Emissions of Short-Lived Climate Pollutants

Yulia Yamineva is Senior Researcher at the University of Eastern Finland Law School. She has published widely on international climate law and negotiations, and the science-policy interface in leading academic journals. She holds a PhD from the University of Cambridge and worked for the UN Climate Change Convention Secretariat and the International Institute for Sustainable Development. Kati Kulovesi is a Professor of International Law at the University of Eastern Finland and Co-Director of the Center for Climate Change, Energy and Environmental Law. She holds a PhD from the London School of Economics and Political Science, and has published widely on international, EU, and national climate change law. She has also led several large multidisciplinary research projects, including the ClimaSlow project funded by the European Research Council to which this book relates. Eugenia Recio is a Postdoctoral Researcher at the University of Eastern Finland Law School. She has extensively worked on international, Latin American and national climate law with a focus on biodiversity, forests and safeguards. She has published on these and other environmental subjects in leading academic journals.

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Introduction Reducing Emissions of Short-Lived Climate Pollutants: Perspectives on Law and Governance

  Yulia Yamineva, Kati Kulovesi and Eugenia Recio



1 Scientific Overview on slcp s Characteristics, Impacts and Uncertainties

  Thomas Kühn, Harri Kokkola, Tuuli Miinalainen and Kari Lehtinen



Part 1

Global Perspectives on Law and Policy of slcp s

2 A Conceptual History of slcp s

  Niklas Löther



3 The International Climate Change Regime Right Home for slcp s?

  Yulia Yamineva and Veera Pekkarinen



4 Strengthening the Global Regulation of Hydrofluorocarbons under the Montreal Protocol

  Louise du Toit



5 The Regulation of Short-Lived Climate Pollutants under the Convention on Long-Range Transboundary Air-Pollution and Its Gothenburg Protocol

  Adam Byrne



6 The Climate and Clean Air Coalition A Voluntary Initiative for Climate and Air Quality

  Charlotte Unger



7 How to Tackle Short-Lived Climate Pollutants Regionally The Experience of the Arctic Council

  Timo Koivurova, Medy Dervovic, Mikael Hildén, Stefan Kirchner, Kaarle Kupiainen and Malgorzata (Gosia) Smieszek



8 From Bilateral Science Diplomacy to Wider Black Carbon Governance? Norwegian-Chinese and Finnish-Russian Initiatives

  Pami Aalto, Gørild Heggelund, Anna Claydon and Minna Hanhijärvi



Part 2

Case Studies of slcp Mitigation

9 Regulating Emissions from Cookstoves Global and National Approaches

  Tuula Honkonen and Alice Karanja



10 An Integrated and Inclusive slcp Strategy for Asia Recommended Policy and Institutional Reforms

  David D. Sussman, Eric Zusman and Matthew Hengesbaugh



11 Black Carbon Emissions in International Maritime Shipping

  Thomas L. Brewer



12 Tackling Black Carbon in Road Transport Towards Global Car Emission Standards

  Kateryna Holzer



13 Transnational Approaches to Controlling Methane Emissions from Oil and Gas Operations

  Tade Oyewunmi



  Conclusion The Past, Present and Future of slcp Law and Governance

  Yulia Yamineva, Kati Kulovesi and Eugenia Recio



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