The UNEP-convened Climate and Clean Air Coalition (CCAC) is a partnership of governments, intergovernmental organizations, and representatives of the private sector, the environmental community, and other members of civil society.
The CCAC is the only international initiative working on integrated climate and clean air solutions to reduce the rate of near-term warming. It focuses on fast action to reduce emissions of short-lived climate pollutants (SLCPs) including methane, black carbon, HFCs and tropospheric ozone. More information about the CCAC is here: www.ccacoalition.org As of October 2023, the CCAC Secretariat is also providing secretariat services to the Global Methane Pledge. More information about the Global Methane Pledge is here: www. Globalmethanepledge.org.
The United Nations Environment Programme (UNEP) hosts the Secretariat at the Economy Division in Paris. The United Nations Environment Programme (UNEP) hosts the Secretariat at the Economy Division in Paris. Brazil joined the Climate and Clean Air Coalition in 2023 and the Ministry of Environment and Climate Change (MMA) submitted a request for support in developing a National Action Plan to Reduce Short-Lived Climate Pollutants (Project BR-23-001). The Stockholm Environment Institute (SEI) was selected as the implementing partner to provide this support, which was launched in December 2024.
The project aims to develop Brazil’s National Clean Air and Climate Action Plan for the Reduction of Short-Lived Climate Pollutants (Action Plan), which will identify a clear set of actions that can be taken to reduce SLCPs, outlines how these actions can be implemented, including a sub-national scale, and how SLCPs can be tracked over time. In addition, the project aims to promote alignment between the SLCP Plan and other relevant national plans, such as the Climate Plan and 2025 updated Nationally Determined Contribution.
The Consultant will work in close collaboration with the project team and build on existing work to:
1. Develop and propose methodology The Consultant shall propose a methodology or set of methodologies for economic valuation and cost-benefit and/or cost-effectiveness assessment. The proposed methodology(ies) will be submitted for technical review and approval by the project team before adoption and should, to the extent possible, align with recognized international and national best practices for quantifying the economic impact of human health burdens, including relevant approaches used by institutions such as the World Health Organization (WHO), OECD, and/or the World Bank, while remaining adapted to the Brazilian context and available data. The methodology(ies) must be explicitly described, justified, and documented, including: – assumptions; – limitations; – data sources; – treatment of uncertainty; – basis for monetary valuation. All quantitative outputs shall be accompanied by a transparent technical note, working files, and reproducible calculations sufficient to permit review and validation by the contracting parties.
2. Quantify economic impacts/benefits of selected mitigation measures Estimate the potential economic magnitude of selected mitigation measures and their expected co-benefits, with a focus on economic impacts related to reductions in emissions of black carbon and precursors of tropospheric ozone. This includes: – Health sector impacts: Quantify, to the extent feasible and supported by available data, impacts and economic implications associated with reductions in mortality, morbidity, hospitalizations, healthcare use, medication expenditures, sick leave, and related factors. – Labor activity impacts: Quantify impacts associated with avoided absenteeism and reduced labor productivity linked to air pollution and climate-related illnesses. – Agriculture impacts: Assess, where feasible, impacts related to productivity gains and/or avoided losses associated with SLCP mitigation. – Quantitative analyses are expected for health and labor sectors. For agriculture, in the absence of relevant data, a qualitative approach may be accepted.
3. Estimate costs related to the implementation of Action Plan’s selected mitigation measures Quantify the implementation costs of selected mitigation measures included in the Action Plan to support cost-benefit analysis. This includes identifying the most relevant cost data for Brazil, including fuel costs; technology costs; capital costs; operation and maintenance costs; stranded asset costs of infrastructure. The Consultant will work with the project team to integrate these cost data into the emissions scenario analysis.
4. Produce policy-relevant outputs Produce a policy-relevant economic assessment suitable for inclusion in the Action Plan and its technical annexes. This assessment should support the identification of cost-effectiveness of different policies and measures under consideration and strengthen the technical basis for policy prioritization.