Reducing Impacts of Air Pollutants in Nepal

The study develops an emission inventory for Nepal and compares a reference scenario with a mitigation policy scenario. It finds that implementing mitigation measures could significantly reduce black carbon, methane, and PM2.5 emissions by 2050, resulting in substantial health and agricultural benefits and a positive economic return.

• Implementing mitigation measures in Nepal could lead to significant emission reductions by 2050 compared to the reference scenario, specifically reducing black carbon (BC) and methane (CH4) by approximately 78% each, and fine particulate matter (PM2.5) by 87%.
• The projected mitigation measures are estimated to avoid 29,000 deaths and 1.7 million tonnes of crop loss, providing an economic benefit in present value that is 2.7 times higher than the total implementation costs between 2010 and 2050.

APA

Stockholm Environment Institute (2020). Reducing Impacts of Air Pollutants in Nepal. https://www.sei.org/publications/reducing-impacts-of-air-pollutants-in-nepal/

Chicago

Stockholm Environment Institute. Reducing Impacts of Air Pollutants in Nepal. 2020. https://www.sei.org/publications/reducing-impacts-of-air-pollutants-in-nepal/.

Wikipedia

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BibTeX

@techreport{stockholmenvironmentinstitute2020reducing, author = {{Stockholm Environment Institute}}, title = {{Reducing Impacts of Air Pollutants in Nepal}}, institution = {Stockholm Environment Institute}, year = {2020}, month = jan, url = {https://www.sei.org/publications/reducing-impacts-of-air-pollutants-in-nepal/}, urldate = {2026-08-17}, note = {Indexed by Climate Insights Directory} }