Economic damages from on-going climate change imply deeper near-term emission cuts

Pathways toward limiting global warming to well below 2  ^∘ C, as used by the IPCC in the Fifth Assessment Report, do not consider the climate impacts already occurring below 2  ^∘ C. Here we show that accounting for such damages significantly increases the near-term ambition of transformation pathw...

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Published in:	Environmental Research Letters
Main Authors:	Anselm Schultes, Franziska Piontek, Bjoern Soergel, Joeri Rogelj, Lavinia Baumstark, Elmar Kriegler, Ottmar Edenhofer, Gunnar Luderer
Format:	Article
Language:	English
Published:	IOP Publishing 2021-01-01
Subjects:	climate change climate mitigation climate impacts integrated assessment open climate campaign
Online Access:	https://doi.org/10.1088/1748-9326/ac27ce