The full report is available at
www.deepdecarbonization.org
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| It can also be downloaded from:
http://unsdsn.org/wp-content/uploads/2014/07/DDPP_interim_2014_report.pdf |
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| This responsive commentary is grounded in the recently
published presentation "Sensitivity and the Carbon Budget" which is the
culmination of nine years of intensive systems dynamics analysis carried out
under the aegis of the Apollo-Gaia Project. That publication brings together
two streams of work. The first is the analysis of "Sensitivity,
Non-Linearity and Self-Amplification in the Global Climate System" presented
to the Club of Rome as the conference keynote address at their annual
gathering in September 2013. The second is the "Basis for a Carbon Budget? A
Critical Evaluation of the Summary for Policymakers of the IPCC AR5 WG1"
released in February 2014. The Commentary and its underlying analyses are
offered to the UNSDSN as a strategic resource ahead of the Global Leaders
meeting convened this coming September in New York under the aegis of the
United Nations. The new analysis has profound and potentially transformative
implications for the whole strategic process of our international commitment
to avoid dangerous climate change. |
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| In its preface, The Deep Decarbonization Pathways Project
(DDPP) states it is a collaborative initiative to understand and show how
individual countries can transition to a low-carbon economy and how the
world can meet the internationally agreed target of limiting the increase in
global mean surface temperature to less than 2 degrees Celsius. |
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| However deep the decarbonization pathway is driven (and it
would have to achieve zero contribution to forcing from all sources), the
task of stabilizing GHG concentrations at a level that prevents dangerous
anthropogenic interference with the climate can no longer be achieved by a
strategy that is restricted to emissions reduction on its own, as is suggested by
the Deep Decarbonization Report. |
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