Arctic Black Carbon impacting on Climate and Air Pollution (ABC-iCAP)

• Promoting national, regional and international collaboration to build and share relevant knowledge, raising awareness, conducting communications and outreach, and performing expert analysis with strategic partners and stakeholders;
• Enhancing collaboration with non-EU Arctic countries, in particular Canada and the USA;
• Contributing to work addressing black carbon and methane under the Arctic Council, UN ECE Air Convention and Barents Euro-Arctic Council; and 
• Increasing awareness and knowledge sharing in cooperation with international and regional actions to reduce black carbon emissions under the Climate and Clean Air Coalition (CCAC), OECD, UNFCCC / IPCC, World Bank’s Global Gas Flaring Reduction (GGFR) partnership and the International Maritime Organisation (IMO).

AMAP Secretariat is responsible for co-managing project implementation together with the two implementing partners in the Action:

• Finnish Environment Institute (SYKE)
• Swedish Environmental Research Institute (IVL)

and eight project key partners:

• Carbon Limits, Norway
• Environment Agency of Austria (EAA)
• Finnish Meteorological Institute (FMI)
• International Climate and Cryosphere Initiative (ICCI) – Europe (Sweden)
• International Institute for Applied Systems Analysis (IIASA) (Austria)
• INTERACT Non-Profit Association (INPA) (Sweden)
• Norwegian Institute for Air Research (NILU)
• Norwegian Institute for Public Health (NIPH)