According to Air and Climate Unit of IES-JRC «air pollution and climate change are connected problems: the sources of air pollutants and climate-warming greenhouse gases are often the same. Air pollution can influence climate change, and climate change can influence the levels of air pollution. Action taken to improve air quality will also yield important short-term benefits for climate change. There is evidence that a reduction of certain air pollutants, which contribute to short-term atmospheric warming, could help to keep the global temperature increase within 2ºC.»
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A recent paper of the United States Environmental Protection Agency summarises the climate impacts of air pollution as well as the air quality impacts of climate change. The 2013 report of the European Environment Agency, Air quality in Europe, emphasises also that «air quality and climate change can be cost‑effectively tackled together by using an integrated approach when defining…
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