Professor Johan C. I. Kuylenstierna

Profile

Biography

Johan is a Senior Researcher at SEI; Professor at the University of York, UK; member of the Scientific Advisory Panel of the Climate and Clean Air Coalition (CCAC) and of the York Civic Environmental Trust Committee.

He has over 40 years of experience on air pollution and climate change, focussing on integrated strategies, especially reducing Short-Lived Climate Pollutants (SLCPs), and quantifying the multiple benefits of action, including on human health. He coordinated the UNEP/WMO integrated assessment on Black Carbon and Tropospheric Ozone; is a coordinating lead author of UNEP assessments (GEO4 and GEO5); author on regional CCAC assessments in Latin America, Asia and Africa, and the Global Methane Assessment.

Johan helps the private sector quantify value chain air pollutant emissions with World Economic Forum. He has supported the UN ECE Convention on LRTAP, regional air pollution cooperation in South Asia (the Malé Declaration) and southern Africa (APINA). He helps to develop and apply the Low Emissions Analysis Platform-Integrated Benefits Calculator tool to inform national and local SLCP, air pollution and climate change mitigation strategies and their contribution to improving health.

Johan has also supported City of York Council’s climate strategy, and is working on retrofit strategies to buildings in support of these in the Retrofit One-Stop Shop York (ROSSY) and Yorkshire and Humber Policy Innovation Partnership (YPIP) projects.

Publications

Selected publications

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. 106155.

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, pp. 863–69.

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.

D. 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, pp. 493-94.

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. 173-82.

Shindell, D.,Kuylenstierna, J.C.I., Vignati, E., Van Dingenen, et al. (2012). Simultaneously mitigating near-term climate change and improving human health and food security. Science 335 (6065), pp. 183–89.

Teaching

Undergraduate

I teach on a couple of courses related to my time as Policy Director of SEI, and on the work related to integrated air pollution and climate change strategy development.

External activities

Overview

I am member of the CCAC Scientific Advisory Panel; Chair of the Science Group supporting the UN International Day of Clean Air for blue skies; member of the York Civic Trust Environment Committee; Commissioner for the York Climate Change Committee.