Opportunities and challenges in using remaining carbon budgets to guide climate policy

HD Matthews, KB Tokarska, ZRJ Nicholls, J Rogelj… - Nature …, 2020 - nature.com
The remaining carbon budget represents the total amount of CO2 that can still be emitted in
the future while limiting global warming to a given temperature target. Remaining carbon …

Science and policy characteristics of the Paris Agreement temperature goal

CF Schleussner, J Rogelj, M Schaeffer… - Nature Climate …, 2016 - nature.com
Abstract The Paris Agreement sets a long-term temperature goal of holding the global
average temperature increase to well below 2° C, and pursuing efforts to limit this to 1.5° C …

Pathways of China's PM2.5 air quality 2015–2060 in the context of carbon neutrality

J Cheng, D Tong, Q Zhang, Y Liu, Y Lei… - National Science …, 2021 - academic.oup.com
Clean air policies in China have substantially reduced particulate matter (PM2. 5) air
pollution in recent years, primarily by curbing end-of-pipe emissions. However, reaching the …

Negative emissions—Part 1: Research landscape and synthesis

JC Minx, WF Lamb, MW Callaghan… - Environmental …, 2018 - iopscience.iop.org
Abstract With the Paris Agreement's ambition of limiting climate change to well below 2 C,
negative emission technologies (NETs) have moved into the limelight of discussions in …

Paris Agreement climate proposals need a boost to keep warming well below 2 C

J Rogelj, M Den Elzen, N Höhne, T Fransen, H Fekete… - Nature, 2016 - nature.com
The Paris climate agreement aims at holding global warming to well below 2 degrees
Celsius and to “pursue efforts” to limit it to 1.5 degrees Celsius. To accomplish this, countries …

Sustainable development, poverty eradication and reducing inequalities

J Roy, P Tscharket, H Waisman, S Abdul Halim… - 2018 - centaur.reading.ac.uk
This chapter takes sustainable development as the starting point and focus for analysis. It
considers the broad and multifaceted bi-directional interplay between sustainable …

[HTML][HTML] Fairness critically conditions the carbon budget allocation across countries

K Williges, LH Meyer, KW Steininger… - Global Environmental …, 2022 - Elsevier
Countries' nationally determined contributions to mitigate global warming translate to claims
of country specific shares of the remaining carbon budget. The remaining global budget is …

Equitable mitigation to achieve the Paris Agreement goals

Y Robiou du Pont, ML Jeffery, J Gütschow… - Nature Climate …, 2017 - nature.com
Benchmarks to guide countries in ratcheting-up ambition, climate finance, and support in an
equitable manner are critical but not yet determined in the context of the Paris Agreement …

Ethical choices behind quantifications of fair contributions under the Paris Agreement

K Dooley, C Holz, S Kartha, S Klinsky… - Nature Climate …, 2021 - nature.com
The Parties to the UNFCCC and Paris Agreement agreed to act on the basis of equity to
protect the climate system. Equitable effort sharing is an irreducibly normative matter, yet …

[HTML][HTML] Synergetic roadmap of carbon neutrality and clean air for China

Q Zhang, Z Yin, X Lu, J Gong, Y Lei, B Cai, C Cai… - Environmental Science …, 2023 - Elsevier
It is well recognized that carbon dioxide and air pollutants share similar emission sources so
that synergetic policies on climate change mitigation and air pollution control can lead to …