Publications

As a means to promote sustainable development and poverty eradication, the United Nations has initiated a process to promote three global energy objectives: energy access, renewable energy and energy efficiency. Here we discuss the consistency of the proposed energy-related objectives with the overarching climate goal of limiting global temperature increase to below 2 °C.

While the official UNFCCC negotiations made some limited progress, encouraging developments on the margins give hope that faster progress is possible.

Limiting global warming below 2°C – or even to below 1.5°C - remains technically and economically feasible, but only with political ambition backed by rapid action starting now, the Climate Action Tracker said today.

There is a vast surplus of units in Kyoto's cap-and-trade system. . If no solution for the carry-over of this surplus from commitment period to commitment period is found, countries that have put forward a target for the second commitment period may be under no pressure to deviate from business-as-usual emissions until 2026.

This report provides a snapshot of recent scientific literature and new analyses of likely impacts and risks that would be associated with a 4°C warming within this century.