61 Result(s)

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Reply to: Why fossil fuel producer subsidies matter

Jessica Jewell, Johannes Emmerling, Vadim Vinichenko, Christoph Bertram… in Nature (2020)

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The public costs of climate-induced financial instability

Recent evidence suggests that climate change will significantly affect economic growth and several productive elements of modern economies, such as workers and land^1–4. Although historical records indicate that e...

Francesco Lamperti, Valentina Bosetti, Andrea Roventini… in Nature Climate Change (2019)

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Connecting climate action with other Sustainable Development Goals

The international community has committed to combat climate change and achieve 17 Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs). Here we explore (dis)connections in evidence and governance between these commitments. Ou...

Francesco Fuso Nerini, Benjamin Sovacool, Nick Hughes, Laura Cozzi… in Nature Sustainability (2019)

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Mitigation scenarios must cater to new users

Climate change mitigation scenarios are finding a wider set of users, including companies and financial institutions. Increased collaboration between scenario producers and these new communities will be mutual...

Christopher Weber, David L. McCollum, Jae Edmonds, Pedro Faria… in Nature Climate Change (2018)

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Country-level social cost of carbon

The social cost of carbon (SCC) is a commonly employed metric of the expected economic damages from carbon dioxide (CO₂) emissions. Although useful in an optimal policy context, a world-level approach obscures th...

Katharine Ricke, Laurent Drouet, Ken Caldeira, Massimo Tavoni in Nature Climate Change (2018)

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Residual fossil CO₂ emissions in 1.5–2 °C pathways

The Paris Agreement—which is aimed at holding global warming well below 2 °C while pursuing efforts to limit it below 1.5 °C—has initiated a bottom-up process of iteratively updating nationally determined cont...

Gunnar Luderer, Zoi Vrontisi, Christoph Bertram… in Nature Climate Change (2018)

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Towards demand-side solutions for mitigating climate change

Research on climate change mitigation tends to focus on supply-side technology solutions. A better understanding of demand-side solutions is missing. We propose a transdisciplinary approach to identify demand-...

Felix Creutzig, Joyashree Roy, William F. Lamb, Inês M. L. Azevedo… in Nature Climate Change (2018)

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Scenarios towards limiting global mean temperature increase below 1.5 °C

The 2015 Paris Agreement calls for countries to pursue efforts to limit global-mean temperature rise to 1.5 °C. The transition pathways that can meet such a target have not, however, been extensively explored....

Joeri Rogelj, Alexander Popp, Katherine V. Calvin, Gunnar Luderer… in Nature Climate Change (2018)

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Limited emission reductions from fuel subsidy removal except in energy-exporting regions

Contrary to the hopes of policymakers, fossil fuel subsidy removal would have only a small impact on global energy demand and carbon dioxide emissions and would not increase renewable energy use by 2030.

Jessica Jewell, David McCollum, Johannes Emmerling, Christoph Bertram… in Nature (2018)

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Climate Engineering and Abatement: A ‘flat’ Relationship Under Uncertainty

The potential of climate engineering to substitute or complement abatement of greenhouse gas emissions has been increasingly debated over the last years. The scientific assessment is driven to a large extent b...

Johannes Emmerling, Massimo Tavoni in Environmental and Resource Economics (2018)

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Low-emission pathways in 11 major economies: comparison of cost-optimal pathways and Paris climate proposals

In order to evaluate the effectiveness of climate policy, it is important to understand emission trends and policies at the national level. The 2015 Paris Agreement includes (Intended) Nationally Determined Co...

Heleen L. van Soest, Lara Aleluia Reis, Laurent Drouet… in Climatic Change (2017)

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COP21 climate negotiators’ responses to climate model forecasts

Communicating climate science requires depicting uncertainty. This study shows that the tendency for COP21 policymakers to assign model forecasts less weight than their prior beliefs when making predictions is...

Valentina Bosetti, Elke Weber, Loïc Berger, David V. Budescu… in Nature Climate Change (2017)

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Economic tools to promote transparency and comparability in the Paris Agreement

Results from four integrated assessment models show countries’ efforts to cut emissions fall towards the lower end of the social cost of carbon distribution, suggesting insufficient levels of ambition to meet ...

Joseph Aldy, William Pizer, Massimo Tavoni, Lara Aleluia Reis… in Nature Climate Change (2016)

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Comparison and interactions between the long-term pursuit of energy independence and climate policies

Ensuring energy security and mitigating climate change are key energy policy priorities. The recent Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change Working Group III report emphasized that climate policies can deliv...

Jessica Jewell, Vadim Vinichenko, David McCollum, Nico Bauer, Keywan Riahi… in Nature Energy (2016)

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The influence of economic growth, population, and fossil fuel scarcity on energy investments

This paper examines the dynamics of energy investments and clean energy Research and Development (R&D) using a scenario-based modeling approach. Starting from the global scenarios proposed in the RoSE model en...

Enrica De Cian, Fabio Sferra, Massimo Tavoni in Climatic Change (2016)

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Will economic growth and fossil fuel scarcity help or hinder climate stabilization?

We investigate the extent to which future energy transformation pathways meeting ambitious climate change mitigation targets depend on assumptions about economic growth and fossil fuel availability. The analys...

Elmar Kriegler, Ioanna Mouratiadou, Gunnar Luderer, Nico Bauer… in Climatic Change (2016)