The Climate and Clean Air Coalition was founded in February 2012. It is a leading, global, multi-stakeholder partnership that brings state, inter-state and non-state organisations together to manage the challenges of climate change and air pollution. The overriding goal of the Coalition is to minimise short-lived climate pollutants such as soot, methane and fluorohydrocarbons. This is intended to contribute towards the global efforts to achieve the goals set out in the Paris Agreement to limit the increase in temperature to 1.5 to 2 C, as well as to improve harvests and minimise the health and economic effects of air pollution.

Switzerland was one of the first state partners to join the Coalition as early as 2013. At the annual meeting of the UNEP from 21 to 23 February 2024 in Nairobi, the Coalition added the aquatic research institute Eawag as a non-state partner. “Eawag supports the partnership with applied research in international development cooperation,” says Christian Zurbrügg, group leader in the Eawag’s Sandec research department. “We are developing new findings in the area of sanitation and waste disposal as well as supporting partners from politics and practice with the implementation of innovative strategies and measures for reducing short-lived climate pollutants.”