Year: 2016
Type: article
Abstract: The scale of the decarbonisation challenge to meet the Paris Agreement is underplayed in the public arena. It will require precipitous emissions reductions within 40 years and a new carbon sink on the scale of the ocean sink. Even then, the world is extremely likely to overshoot. A catastrophic failure of policy, for example, waiting another decade for transformative policy and full commitments to fossil‐free economies, will have irreversible and deleterious repercussions for humanity's remaining time on Earth. Only a global zero carbon roadmap will put the world on a course to phase‐out greenhouse gas emissions and create the essential carbon sinks for Earth‐system stability, without which, world prosperity is not possible.
Source: Earth s Future
DOI: 10.1002/2016ef000392
Institutions: Stockholm Resilience Centre, Potsdam Institute for Climate Impact Research, Imperial College London, Scripps Institution of Oceanography, University of California San Diego, Columbia University, Max Planck Institute for Meteorology, Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences, Future Earth, Instituto Nacional de Pesquisas Espaciais, The University of Melbourne, International Institute for Applied Systems Analysis, ETH Zurich, Institute for Atmospheric and Climate Science
Language: English
Subfield: Economics and Econometrics
Domain: Social Sciences
SDGs: Climate action, Life on land
Open Access status: gold
Estimated APC paid: $3,180
OpenAlex ID: W2514515480