Global greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions have continued to grow persistently since 1750.
The United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC) entered into …

Estimates of economic implications of climate policy are important inputs into policy-making.
Despite care to contextualize quantitative assessments of mitigation costs, one strong view …

Prudent risk management requires consideration of bad-to-worst-case scenarios. Yet, for
climate change, such potential futures are poorly understood. Could anthropogenic climate …

Chapter 3 takes a long-term perspective on climate change mitigation pathways. Its focus is
on the implications of long-term targets for the required short-and medium-term system …

Climate scientists have long emphasized the importance of climate tipping points like
thawing permafrost, ice sheet disintegration, and changes in atmospheric circulation. Yet …

Estimates of the social cost of carbon are the yardstick for climate policy targets. However,
there is great uncertainty and we do not know how estimates have evolved over time. Here I …

Designing policy for climate change requires analyses which integrate the interrelationship
between the economy and the environment. We argue that, despite their dominance in the …

The reasons for concern framework communicates scientific understanding about risks in
relation to varying levels of climate change. The framework, now a cornerstone of the IPCC …

A diversity of integrated assessment models (IAMs) coexists due to the different approaches
developed to deal with the complex interactions, high uncertainties and knowledge gaps …

Uncertainty about future economic and climate conditions substantially affects the choice of
policies for managing interactions between the climate and the economy. We develop a …