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- Title
Copenhagen Accord pledges are paltry.
- Authors
Rogelj, Joeri; Nabel, Julia; Chen, Claudine; Hare, William; Markmann, Kathleen; Meinshausen, Malte; Schaeffer, Michiel; Macey, Kirsten; Höhne, Niklas
- Abstract
The article focuses on the insufficiency on the national emissions-reduction pledges, accompanied in the Copenhagen Accord document, to meet the objective of keeping global warming at 2° Celsius and at 1.5 ° Celsius by 2015. It states that 76 countries, which include the U.S. with a 17% target by 2020 and Canada with an increase of emission allowances by 2020 above its Kyoto Protocol, had filled their pledges as of April 13, 2010. It says that if a country reduces its target, it can result to surplus allowances. It mentions that land use, land use change, and forestry are included as sources of surplus. Projections on the targeted emission allowance such as a 19.8 Gigatonnes CO2 equivalent for developed countries are discussed.
- Subjects
UNITED States; CANADA; GLOBAL warming; CARBON dioxide mitigation; EMISSION control; UNITED Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (1992). Protocols, etc., 1997 December 11; LAND use; FORESTS &; forestry; PLEDGES of allegiance
- Publication
Nature, 2010, Vol 464, Issue 7292, p1126
- ISSN
0028-0836
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.1038/4641126a