Beyond CO2: Mark Lawrence and Charlotte Unger on air pollution and climate change

Research Institute for Sustainability (RIFS)

When atmospheric scientist Mark Lawrence visited Kathmandu nearly 10 years ago, he got sick from air pollution - really sick. The Scientific Director of the IASS talked to a local shopkeeper, who told him he and many others also frequently had this horrible cough. Years later this inspired Mark to get his colleague Maheswar Rupakheti on board and start investigating and tackling the issue, to improve both people's health as well as reduce the regional climate impact. Learn more about short-lived climate forcing pollutants from Mark and IASS researcher Charlotte Unger, who met with the Climate and Clean Air Coalition CCAC at this year's climate summit COP23 in Bonn.