Current global efforts are insufficient to limit warming to 1.5 C

HD Matthews, S Wynes - Science, 2022 - science.org
Human activities have caused global temperatures to increase by 1.25° C, and the current
emissions trajectory suggests that we will exceed 1.5° C in less than 10 years. Though the …

The meaning of net zero and how to get it right

S Fankhauser, SM Smith, M Allen, K Axelsson… - Nature Climate …, 2022 - nature.com
The concept of net-zero carbon emissions has emerged from physical climate science.
However, it is operationalized through social, political and economic systems. We identify …

[HTML][HTML] Assessing the energy transition in China towards carbon neutrality with a probabilistic framework

S Zhang, W Chen - Nature communications, 2022 - nature.com
A profound transformation of China's energy system is required to achieve carbon neutrality.
Here, we couple Monte Carlo analysis with a bottom-up energy-environment-economy …

Challenges toward carbon neutrality in China: Strategies and countermeasures

X Zhao, X Ma, B Chen, Y Shang, M Song - Resources, Conservation and …, 2022 - Elsevier
In response to climate change, the Chinese government has set a clear goal to reach its
carbon peak by 2030 and achieve carbon neutrality by 2060, endeavoring to gradually …

Recycling of lithium iron phosphate batteries: Status, technologies, challenges, and prospects

M Wang, K Liu, S Dutta, DS Alessi, J Rinklebe… - … and Sustainable Energy …, 2022 - Elsevier
The limited fossil fuel supply toward carbon neutrality has driven tremendous efforts to
replace fuel vehicles by electric ones. The recycling of retired power batteries, a core energy …

Measuring the carbon intensity of ai in cloud instances

J Dodge, T Prewitt, R Tachet des Combes… - Proceedings of the …, 2022 - dl.acm.org
The advent of cloud computing has provided people around the world with unprecedented
access to computational power and enabled rapid growth in technologies such as machine …

Cost and attainability of meeting stringent climate targets without overshoot

K Riahi, C Bertram, D Huppmann, J Rogelj… - Nature Climate …, 2021 - nature.com
Global emissions scenarios play a critical role in the assessment of strategies to mitigate
climate change. The current scenarios, however, are criticized because they feature …

[PDF][PDF] Mitigation pathways compatible with long-term goals

K Riahi, R Schaeffer, J Arango, K Calvin, C Guivarch… - 2022 - cgspace.cgiar.org
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 …

Energy systems in scenarios at net-zero CO2 emissions

J DeAngelo, I Azevedo, J Bistline, L Clarke… - Nature …, 2021 - nature.com
Achieving net-zero CO2 emissions has become the explicitgoal of many climate-energy
policies around the world. Although many studies have assessed net-zero emissions …

[HTML][HTML] The IPCC Sixth Assessment Report WGIII climate assessment of mitigation pathways: from emissions to global temperatures

JS Kikstra, ZRJ Nicholls, CJ Smith… - Geoscientific Model …, 2022 - gmd.copernicus.org
While the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) physical science reports
usually assess a handful of future scenarios, the Working Group III contribution on climate …