An Earth system model, HadCM3C, is used to explore the consequences of the mitigation of greenhouse gas emissions compared to a ‘business as usual’ scenario.
The model is significantly more advanced than models typically used for providing mitigation advice. We use a collection of model runs, known as […]
This study assesses the potential for China to significantly reduce its carbon dioxide (CO2) emissions to 2050, with a focus on CO2 from energy and industrial emissions. The study uses modelling by the International Institute for Applied Systems Analysis (IIASA) and Imperial College London, to undertake a detailed […]
In principle, it is possible to achieve a given global temperature target with different combinations of greenhouse gas concentrations in the atmosphere. However, atmospheric CO2 also has a direct effect on some impact sectors, such as ecosystem and crop productivity. Plant growth, and hence productivity, is influenced by […]
The 1992 UN Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC) commits signatories to achieving a “stabilisation of greenhouse gas concentrations in the atmosphere at a level that would prevent dangerous anthropogenic interference with the climate system”, leaving unspecified the level of global warming that is “dangerous” (Oppenheimer and Petsonk […]
The United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change states that participating nations should seek to “avoid dangerous anthropogenic interference with the climate system.” In response, participating nations are planning and undertaking a wide variety of mitigation and adaptation actions, and investigation of options for mitigating and adapting to […]
