Air pollution, clean energy and climate change

Cover -- Title Page -- Copyright Page -- Contents -- Preface -- Chapter 1 Destroying Lives and Evidenced in Plain Sight: The Intertwined Crises of Climate Change, Lack of Access to Clean Energy and Air Pollution -- 1.1 Now or Never: The Urgency of Linked Action on Clean Air and Clean Energy in the Struggle Against Climate Change -- 1.2 Time to Look Beyond UN SILOS on Sustainable Energy and Climate Change to Curb Toxic Air Pollution: Why Non-Nation-State Actors (NNSAs) Matter in the Fight for Clean Air, Clean Energy and Climate -- 1.3 Mapping the Scope of the World's Largest Environmental Health Risk: Why Curbing Particulate Matter Air Pollution Matters for Millions of Lives -- 1.4 Outlining Scope of Work: Brief Overview and Caveats as to Limitations -- References -- Chapter 2 Identifying the Locus for Global Action on Clean Energy and Climate Change within the UN: Confronting Segregated Global Goals and Partnership Silos -- 2.1 Background: Confronting Global Neglect of Climate Related Health Risks -- 2.2 Segregated UN Goal Silos on Clean Energy and Climate Change -- 2.3 Delving into the UN Acronym Soup on Partnerships for Sustainable Development -- 2.4 Conclusion: Confusion Rather Than Clarity Prevails with Segregated Silos and Partnerships on Sustainable Energy and Climate Change -- References -- Chapter 3 Looking Beyond the Global Climate Change Negotiations Silo: Examining UN Climate Change Outcomes for Linked Action on Clean Air and Clean Energy for All -- 3.1 Time to Look Beyond Tense Annual Climate Negotiations: Developing Countries' Urgent Needs -- 3.2 Shedding Some Light on Clean Energy and Climate Action by NNSAs Within the UNFCCC: A Brief Overview of the Clean Development Mechanism -- 3.3 Role of NNSAs in the PA: Explosive Growth but Still Operating from the Margins of the UNFCCC Negotiations Framework.

"As a result of the COVID 19 pandemic, irrevocable loss has been experienced in the personal circles that each of us identifies as family/friends and in the intersecting and rippling circles that expand from there. This book has been written in the margins of grief, and in the midst of the real-time widow work of making sure my sons who tragically and brutally lost their beloved father before his time somehow didn't shatter under the weight of sadness. But, writing a foreword for a book that is inextricably interwoven with profound loss also comes with a sense of gratitude for the courage and loyalty of true friends, and for the tireless advocates who have spoken out for climate justice but are now silenced."--