| 来源类型 | Article
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| 规范类型 | 其他
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| DOI | 10.1038/ncomms15748
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| Understanding the origin of Paris Agreement emission uncertainties. |
| Meinshausen M; Zilliacus JJJ
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| 发表日期 | 2017
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| 出处 | Nature Communications 8: e15748
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| 出版年 | 2017
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| 语种 | 英语
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| 摘要 | The UN Paris Agreement puts in place a legally binding mechanism to increase mitigation action over time. Countries put forward pledges called nationally determined contributions (NDC) whose impact is assessed in global stocktaking exercises. Subsequently, actions can then be strengthened in light of the Paris climate objective: limiting global mean temperature increase to well below 2 °C and pursuing efforts to limit it further to 1.5 °C. However, pledged actions are currently described ambiguously and this complicates the global stocktaking exercise. Here, we systematically explore possible interpretations of NDC assumptions, and show that this results in estimated emissions for 2030 ranging from 47 to 63 GtCO2e yr−1. We show that this uncertainty has critical implications for the feasibility and cost to limit warming well below 2 °C and further to 1.5 °C. Countries are currently working towards clarifying the modalities of future NDCs. We identify salient avenues to reduce the overall uncertainty by about 10 percentage points through simple, technical clarifications regarding energy accounting rules. Remaining uncertainties depend to a large extent on politically valid choices about how NDCs are expressed, and therefore raise the importance of a thorough and robust process that keeps track of where emissions are heading over time. |
| 主题 | Energy (ENE)
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| 关键词 | Climate-change mitigation, Climate-change policy, Socioeconomic scenarios
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| URL | http://pure.iiasa.ac.at/id/eprint/14631/
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| 来源智库 | International Institute for Applied Systems Analysis (Austria)
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| 资源类型 | 智库出版物
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| 条目标识符 | http://119.78.100.153/handle/2XGU8XDN/130971
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Meinshausen M,Zilliacus JJJ. Understanding the origin of Paris Agreement emission uncertainties.. 2017.
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