{"id":33513,"date":"2025-01-22T21:17:09","date_gmt":"2025-01-22T20:17:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.co2news.sk\/?p=33513"},"modified":"2025-01-22T21:17:34","modified_gmt":"2025-01-22T20:17:34","slug":"how-super-pollutants-are-harming-human-health-and-worsening-climate-change","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.co2news.sk\/en\/2025\/01\/22\/how-super-pollutants-are-harming-human-health-and-worsening-climate-change\/","title":{"rendered":"How &#039;super pollutants&#039; are harming human health and worsening climate change"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"greyBar fixed\">\n<div class=\"centerDtls\">While the fight against climate change has primarily focused on carbon dioxide (CO2), a group of other greenhouse gases and aerosols \u2013 known as \u201csuper pollutants\u201d \u2013 have a significant impact on global temperatures and human health. They are responsible for about 45 % of global warming to date, as well as millions of premature deaths each year.<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"article-wrapper\">\n<div class=\"innerArt\">\n<p>Reducing emissions of these non-CO2 substances, including methane, hydrofluorocarbons and black carbon, is considered one of the fastest ways to address climate change.<\/p>\n<p>Studies have shown how global measures to reduce emissions of super-pollutants could prevent four times more warming by 2050 than decarbonization policies alone.<\/p>\n<p>At the same time, it could prevent around 2.4 million deaths annually caused by air pollution. (<em>Dr. Rachel Huxley, Dr. Drew Shindell, Talia Caplan, more at <a href=\"https:\/\/www.carbonbrief.org\/guest-post-how-super-pollutants-harm-human-health-and-worsen-climate-change\/?utm_source=cbnewsletter&amp;utm_medium=email&amp;utm_term=2025-01-22&amp;utm_campaign=Daily+Briefing+22+01+2025\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><span style=\"color: #0000ff;\">carbonbrief.com<\/span><\/a>)<\/em><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>While the fight against climate change has primarily focused on carbon dioxide (CO2), a group of other greenhouse gases and aerosols \u2013 known as \u201csuper pollutants\u201d \u2013 have a significant impact on global temperatures and human health. They are responsible for about 45 % of global warming to date, as well as millions of premature deaths each year. Reducing emissions of these substances, which are not [\u2026]<\/p>","protected":false},"author":7,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-33513","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-klimaticka-zmena"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.co2news.sk\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/33513","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.co2news.sk\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.co2news.sk\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.co2news.sk\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/7"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.co2news.sk\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=33513"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.co2news.sk\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/33513\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.co2news.sk\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=33513"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.co2news.sk\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=33513"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.co2news.sk\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=33513"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}