Climate targets and cost-effective climate stabilization pathways

Uncertainties in climate stabilization

The atmospheric composition, temperature and sea level implications out to 2300 of new reference and cost-optimized stabilization emissions scenarios produced using three different Integrated Assessment (IA) models are described and assessed. Stabilization is defined in terms of radiative forcing targets for the sum of gases potentially controlled under the Kyoto Protocol. For the most stringen...

‘Failing’ claims on climate targets

of land from Uganda to grow corn and wheat. The deal that really brought the phenomenon to the surface was the former Madagascar government's decision to lease 1.3 million hectares, or half the island's arable land, to the South Korean giant Daewoo for 99 years for biofuel plantations. When it was revealed that Daewoo would pay nothing for the land and would instead barter it for infrastructure...

Long-term Emissions and Climate Stabilization Scenarios

Climate Stabilization Targets: Emissions, Concentrations, and Impacts over Decades to Millennia

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Iran's Future Climate Conditions and Hazard in Climate Research

Global temperatures have increased in the past 100 years by an average of 0.74°C (IPCC, 2013), with minimum temperatures increasing faster than maximum temperatures and winter temperatures increasing faster than summer temperatures (IPCC, 2013). Total annual rainfall tends to increase at the higher latitudes and near the equator, while rainfall in the sub-tropics is likely to decline and become...