More frequent moments in the climate change debate as emissions continue

Chris Huntingford; Pierre Friedlingstein

doi:10.1088/1748-9326/10/12/121001

More frequent moments in the climate change debate as emissions continue

Chris Huntingford
, Pierre Friedlingstein

Centre for Ecology and Hydrology
University of Exeter

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Abstract

Recent years have witnessed unprecedented interest in how the burning of fossil fuels may impact on the global climate system. Such visibility of this issue is in part due to the increasing frequency of key international summits to debate emissions levels, including the 2015 21st Conference of Parties meeting in Paris. In this perspective we plot a timeline of significant climate meetings and reports, and against metrics of atmospheric greenhouse gas changes and global temperature. One powerful metric is cumulative CO₂ emissions that can be related to past and future warming levels. That quantity is analysed in detail through a set of papers in this ERL focus issue.

Original language	English
Article number	121001
Journal	Environmental Research Letters
Volume	10
Issue number	12
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1088/1748-9326/10/12/121001
Publication status	Published - 10 Dec 2015
Externally published	Yes

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This output contributes to the following UN Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs)

SDG 3 Good Health and Well-being
SDG 7 Affordable and Clean Energy
SDG 13 Climate Action

Keywords

COP21
IPCC
carbon dioxide
climate change
cumulative emissions
global warming

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More frequent moments in the climate change debate as emissions continue

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