Principles to guide investment towards a stable climate
Nature Climate Change Nature Publishing Group 8 (2018) 2-4
Abstract:
Investors will play a major role, whether active or passive, in climate change mitigation. To enable prudent decision-making, we propose three physically based engagement principles that could be used to assess whether an investment is consistent with a long-term climate goal.Focus on cumulative emissions, global carbon budgets and the implications for climate mitigation targets
Environmental Research Letters IOP Publishing 13:1 (2018) 010201
A real-time Global Warming Index.
Scientific Reports Nature Publishing Group 7:1 (2017) 15417
Abstract:
We propose a simple real-time index of global human-induced warming and assess its robustness to uncertainties in climate forcing and short-term climate fluctuations. This index provides improved scientific context for temperature stabilisation targets and has the potential to decrease the volatility of climate policy. We quantify uncertainties arising from temperature observations, climate radiative forcings, internal variability and the model response. Our index and the associated rate of human-induced warming is compatible with a range of other more sophisticated methods to estimate the human contribution to observed global temperature change.Assigning historical responsibilities for extreme weather events
Nature Climate Change Nature Publishing Group 7 (2017) 757-759
Abstract:
Recent scientific advances make it possible to assign extreme events to human-induced climate change and historical emissions. These developments allow losses and damage associated with such events to be assigned country-level responsibility.The rise in global atmospheric CO2, surface temperature, and sea level from emissions traced to major carbon producers
Climatic Change Springer Nature 144:4 (2017) 579-590