Cut Super Climate Pollutants Now!

The Ozone Treaty's Urgent Lessons for Speeding Up Climate Action

Alan Miller, Durwood Zaelke, Stephen O. Andersen

'Lays out an absolutely essential part of initial climate action in the US and other countries. Climate policymakers need to read this book, now.' James Gustave Speth, former chair, US Council on Environmental Quality.

We have a decade or less to radically slow global warming before we risk hitting irreversible tipping points that will lock in catastrophic climate change. The good news is that we know how to slow global warming enough to avert disaster. Cut Super Climate Pollutants Now! explains how a 10-year sprint to cut short-lived “super climate pollutants” – primarily HFC refrigerants, black carbon (soot), and methane – can cut the rate of global warming in half, so we can stay in the race to net zero climate emissions by 2050.

Table of contents

• Dedication
• Foreword
• Acknowledgements
• Introduction
• Chapter 1 The Time to Act Is NOW!
• Chapter 2 CO2 Mitigation Alone Can’t Protect Us
• Chapter 3 How Cutting Super Climate Pollutants Can Save Us
• Chapter 4 Lessons from the Montreal Protocol
• Chapter 5 Cutting Super Climate Pollutants Now: Three Steps
• Note to reader
• Glossary & Acronyms