Distortion of sectoral roles in climate change threatens climate goals

The longstanding method for reporting greenhouse gas emissions—carbon dioxide equivalence (CO2e)—systematically underestimates methane-dominated economic sectors' contributions to warming in the coming decades. This is because it only calculates the warming impact of a pulse of emissions over a...

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Published in:	Frontiers in Climate
Main Authors:	Naomi Cohen-Shields, Tianyi Sun, Steven P. Hamburg, Ilissa B. Ocko
Format:	Article
Language:	English
Published:	Frontiers Media S.A. 2023-05-01
Subjects:	climate change climate metrics greenhouse gas emissions climate modeling methane climate goals
Online Access:	https://www.frontiersin.org/articles/10.3389/fclim.2023.1163557/full