Climate Change & Air Quality
Relationship Between Climate Change & Air Quality
The factors that affect air quality are interrelated with factors that affect climate change. The overlap of causes and mitigation for particulate matter and greenhouse gases are co-beneficial, meaning, strategies used to reduce one, also reduce the other. Although the types of particulate matter and gases may have regional distinctions their origins are similar. For example, the main source of emissions in the Bay Area are from gasoline and diesel fuel-powered vehicles. These emissions both pollute ground-level air, lowering air quality, and contribute to the concentration of greenhouse gasses in the atmosphere, which has the potential to increase global warming and the impacts of climate change.
