2018/10/1/ · Estimations also suggest that 40% of black carbon (BC), a short-lived climate pollutant (SLCP) attributed to open burning of urban and agricultural waste, can warm the climate over relatively short lifetimes in the atmosphere (UNEP, 2011, Bond et al., 2013, UNEP and ISWA, 2015, Kutzner et al., 2018).According to the European Investment Bank (2016), BC has a