Black carbon - CSE Fact Sheet on Climate Change 2012

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. The main sources of black carbon emissions are burning of biomass in inefficient cooking stoves, diesel emissions from the transport sector and from
generators (especially those without pollution filters), and burning of other fossil fuels and biomass in industry and power production.