Johan Kuylenstierna
Reader / Research Leader

Profile

Biography

Johan is a Research Leader at SEI, a member of SEI’s Global Research Committee, and Reader at the University of York, UK, and has worked at SEI since 1989. He is a member of the Scientific Advisory Panel (SAP) of the Climate and Clean Air Coalition (CCAC). Key areas of interest relate to the integration of strategies to address climate change and air quality, in particular associated with strategies to reduce Short-Lived Climate Pollutants (SLCPs). He is part of a team developing an SLCP strategy support tool – LEAP-IBC – being used by many governments to develop national integrated air pollution and climate change mitigation strategies. He also contributed to assessing impacts of air pollution on human health such as on pre-term births and asthma. He coordinated a UNEP/WMO integrated assessment on Black Carbon and Tropospheric Ozone and is an author of the CCAC/UNEP Global Methane Assessment: Benefits and Costs of Mitigating Methane Emissions. He is involved in the implementation of the Global Methane Pledge that follows from momentum built from the Global Methane Assessment. He also has been engaging with the private sector to enable companies to quantify their value chain emissions of air pollutants, engaging with the World Economic Forum coordinated Alliance for Clean Air. As part of this work he has supported the development of a practical guide to quantify and reduce air pollution from businesses.

Publications

Selected publications

Malley, C.S., Lefèvre, E.N., Kuylenstierna, J.C.I., Haeussling, S.,  Howard, I.C. & Borgford-Parnell, N. (2022) Integration of Short-Lived Climate Pollutant and air pollutant mitigation in nationally determined contributions, Climate Policy, DOI: https://doi.org/10.1080/14693062.2022.2125928

Agbossou, A., Fontodji, J.K.,  Ayassou, K., Tchegueni, S., Segla, K.N., Adjonou, K., Bokovi, Y., Ajayon, A-L., Polo- Akpisso, A., Kuylenstierna, J.C.I., Malley, C.S., Michalopoulou, E., Slater, J. (2022) Integrated climate change and air pollution mitigation assessment for Togo. Science of The Total Environment 844, https://doi.org/10.1016/j.scitotenv.2022.157107.

Kuylenstierna, J. C. I., Heaps, C. G., Ahmed, T., Vallack, H. W., Hicks, W. K., Ashmore, M. R., Malley, C. S., Wang, G., Lefèvre, E. N., Anenberg, S. C., Lacey, F., Shindell, D. T., Bhattacharjee, U. and Henze, D. K. (2020). Development of the Low Emissions Analysis Platform – Integrated Benefits Calculator (LEAP-IBC) tool to assess air quality and climate co-benefits: Application for Bangladesh. Environment International 145. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.envint.2020.106155

Anenberg, S.C., Henze, D.K., Tinney, V., Kinney, P.L., Raich, W., Fann, N., Malley, C., Roman, H., Lamsal, L., Duncan, B., Martin, R.V., van Donkelaar, A., Brauer, M., Doherty, R., Jonson, J.H., Davila, Y., Sudo, K., Kuylenstierna, J.C.I. (2018). Estimates of the global burden of ambient PM2.5, ozone, and NO2 on asthma incidence and emergency room visits. Environmental Health Perspectives. 2018. https://doi.org/10.1289/EHP3766.

Haines, A. Amann, M., Borgford-Parnell, N. Leonard, S., Kuylenstierna, J & Shindell, D.  (2017) Short-lived climate pollutant mitigation and the Sustainable Development Goals. Nature Climate Change 7, pages863–869 (2017) DOI: https://doi.org/10.1038/s41558-017-0012-x 

Christopher S. Malley, Daven K. Henze, Johan C.I. Kuylenstierna, Harry W. Vallack, Yanko Davila, Susan C. Anenberg, Michelle C. Turner, and Mike R. Ashmore (2017). Updated Global Estimates of Respiratory Mortality in Adults ≥30 Years of Age Attributable to Long-Term Ozone Exposure. Environ Health Perspect; 125. https://doi.org/10.1289/EHP1390 

Shindell, D., Borgford-Parnell, N., Brauer, M., Haines, A. Kuylenstierna, J. C. I., Leonard, S.A., Ramanathan, V. Ravishankara, A., Amann, M. and Srivastava, L. (2017). A climate policy pathway for near- and long-term benefits - Climate actions can advance sustainable development. Science 356, 493-4. https://www science.org/doi/10.1126/science.aak9521 

Malley, C.S., Kuylenstierna, J.C.I., Vallack, H.W., Henze, D.K., Blencowe, H., Ashmore, M.R. (2017). Preterm birth associated with maternal fine particulate matter exposure: A global, regional and national assessment. Environment International 101, pp. 173-182. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.envint.2017.01.023

Anenberg, S.C., Schwartz, J., Shindell, D., Amann, M, Faluvegi, G., Klimont, Z., Janssens-Maenhout, G., Pozzoli. L., Van Dingenen, R., Vignati, E., Emberson, L., Muller, N.Z., West, J.J., Williams, M., Demkine, V., Hicks, W.K., Kuylenstierna, J., Raes, F. and Ramanathan, V. (2012). Global Air Quality and Health Co-benefits of Mitigating Near-Term Climate Change through Methane and Black Carbon Emission Controls. Environmental Health Perspectives 120:831-839. http://dx.doi.org/10.1289/ehp.1104301

Shindell, D.,Kuylenstierna, J.C.I., Vignati, E., Van Dingenen, R., Amann, M., Klimont, Z., Anenberg, S.C., Muller, N., Janssens-Maenhout, G., Raes, F., Schwartz, J., Faluvegi, G., Pozzoli, L., Kupiainen, K., Höglund-Isaksson, L., Emberson, L., Streets, D., Ramanathan, V., Hicks, K., Oanh, K., Milly, G., Williams, M., Demkine, V. and Fowler, D. (2012). Simultaneously mitigating near-term climate change and improving human health and food security. Science 335 (6065), 183–189. DOI: https://www.science.org/doi/10.1126/science.1210026