In 2023, global mean surface air temperature reached 1.43 °C above pre-industrial level (1.32–1.53 °C, likely range) 1. This exceeded the best estimate for human-induced warming 1 of 1.31 °C (1.1–1.7 ...
Climate pledges are a key pathway for achieving temperature control but also exert profound cascading effects on the global Earth system. Evaluating such cascading effects often requires land change ...
The US economist William Nordhaus claimed as early as the 1970s, when scientific understanding of climate change was still taking shape, that warming of more than 2°C would “push global conditions ...
Three strikes and you’re out is a pretty good rule. And the politicians and negotiators attending the Paris climate summit, “COP21”, in December 2015 were facing their third strike. Their first and ...