Measuring a fair and ambitious climate agreement using cumulative emissions

Policy makers have called for a ‘fair and ambitious’ global climate agreement. Scientific constraints, such as the allowable carbon emissions to avoid exceeding a 2 °C global warming limit with 66% probability, can help define ambitious approaches to climate targets. However, fairly sharing the miti...

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Main Authors: Glen P Peters, Robbie M Andrew, Susan Solomon, Pierre Friedlingstein
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: IOP Publishing 2015-01-01
Series:Environmental Research Letters
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Online Access:https://doi.org/10.1088/1748-9326/10/10/105004