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Climate and Clean Air Coalition (CCAC)



What is Climate and Clean Air Coalition (CCAC)?


  • The Climate and Clean Air Coalition (CCAC) is a voluntary partnership of governments, intergovernmental organizations, businesses, scientific institutions and civil society organizations.
  • CCAC is committed to improving air quality and protecting the climate through actions to reduce short-lived climate pollutants. 
  • CCAC has a global network of 120 state and non-state partners, and hundreds of local actors carrying out activities across economic sectors.
  • The genesis of CCAC can be traced in the Scientific Assessment Report released in 2011 by UN Environment and the World Meteorological Organization (WMO).
  • The report found that measures targeting short-lived climate pollutants could achieve “win-win” results for the climate, air quality, and human well being over a relatively short time frame.
  • Accordingly, in 2012, the governments of Bangladesh, Canada, Ghana, Mexico, Sweden and the United States, along with the United Nations Environment Programme (UNEP), came together and formed the CCAC.
  • The purpose of formation of the CCAC was to initiate efforts to treat short-lived climate pollutants as an urgent and collective challenge to support fast action and deliver benefits on several fronts at once: climate, public health, energy efficiency, and food security.

Activities of the Coalition

  • Training and institutional strengthening.
  • Support for developing laws, regulations, policies and plans.
  • Technology demonstrations.
  • Political outreach.
  • Awareness raising campaigns.
  • Co-funding and catalyzed funding.
  • Development of knowledge resources and tools.

Key Strategy of the Coalition

  • Enable transformative action by providing knowledge, resources, and technical and institutional capacity to act and supporting the sharing of information, experience, and expertise.
  • Mobilize support for action to put short-lived climate pollutants on the policy map through advocacy at all levels of government and in the private sector and civil society.
  • Increase the availability of and access to financial resources to support the successful implementation of scalable, transformational action.
  • Enhance scientific knowledge to help decision-makers scale up action and promote the multiple benefits of action on short-lived climate pollutants.


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