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Arctic Climate Issues 2015: Short-lived Climate Pollutants‚ Summary for Policy-Makers

This document presents the policy-relevant findings of the Arctic Monitoring and Assessment Programme's 2015 assessments of short-lived climate forcers (methane, black carbon, and ozone) in the Arctic. Short-lived climate forcers cause warming and have lifetimes of a few days to a decade.