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Black carbon: Better monitoring needed to assess health and climate change impacts

News Published 10 Dec 2013 Last modified 10 Dec 2019

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Photo: © Roberto Venturini

Black carbon is an air pollutant which harms human health and can contribute to climate change – so cutting emissions may have many benefits. The European Environment Agency (EEA) has published a report on the measurement of black carbon in the air.