Climate Change

Factsheet: Black carbon - A short-lived climate forcer

Black carbon is a component of soot, released during combustion, particularly incomplete combustion of fossil fuels or biomass. It is released when carbon is only partially combusted.

 
Published: Monday 26 November 2012

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