The meaning of net zero and how to get it right

Getting the message right on nature‐based solutions to climate change

(2021) Nathalie Seddon et al.   GLOBAL CHANGE BIOLOGY

Carbon Capture and Storage in the United States: Perceptions, preferences, and lessons for policy

(2021) Silvia Pianta et al.   ENERGY POLICY

National COVID debts: climate change imperils countries’ ability to repay

(2021) Arjuna Dibley et al.   NATURE

Net-zero emissions targets are vague: three ways to fix

(2021) Joeri Rogelj et al.   NATURE

Nature-based solutions can help cool the planet — if we act now

(2021) Cécile A. J. Girardin et al.   NATURE

Assessing China’s efforts to pursue the 1.5°C warming limit

(2021) Hongbo Duan et al.   SCIENCE

Further improvement of warming-equivalent emissions calculation

(2021) M. A. Smith et al.   npj Climate and Atmospheric Science

Central bank mandates, sustainability objectives and the promotion of green finance

(2021) Simon Dikau et al.   ECOLOGICAL ECONOMICS

Operationalizing the net-negative carbon economy

(2021) Johannes Bednar et al.   NATURE

Asynchronous carbon sink saturation in African and Amazonian tropical forests

(2020) Wannes Hubau et al.   NATURE

Carbon release through abrupt permafrost thaw

(2020) Merritt R. Turetsky et al.   Nature Geoscience

Negative emissions and the long history of carbon removal

(2020) Wim Carton et al.   Wiley Interdisciplinary Reviews-Climate Change

Restoring natural forests is the best way to remove atmospheric carbon

(2019) Simon L. Lewis et al.   NATURE

Comment on “The global tree restoration potential”

(2019) Joseph W. Veldman et al.   SCIENCE

Negative emissions—Part 2: Costs, potentials and side effects

(2018) Sabine Fuss et al.   Environmental Research Letters

Current level and rate of warming determine emissions budgets under ambitious mitigation

(2018) Nicholas J. Leach et al.   Nature Geoscience

Future effects of climate and land-use change on terrestrial vertebrate community diversity under different scenarios

(2018) Tim Newbold   PROCEEDINGS OF THE ROYAL SOCIETY B-BIOLOGICAL SCIENCES

Net-zero emissions energy systems

(2018) Steven J. Davis et al.   SCIENCE

Achieving a climate justice pathway to 1.5 °C

(2018) Mary Robinson et al.   Nature Climate Change

A low energy demand scenario for meeting the 1.5 °C target and sustainable development goals without negative emission technologies

(2018) Arnulf Grubler et al.   Nature Energy

Path-dependent reductions in CO2 emission budgets caused by permafrost carbon release

(2018) T. Gasser et al.   Nature Geoscience

Beyond Technology: Demand-Side Solutions for Climate Change Mitigation

(2016) Felix Creutzig et al.   Annual Review of Environment and Resources

The ‘2°C capital stock’ for electricity generation: Committed cumulative carbon emissions from the electricity generation sector and the transition to a green economy

(2016) Alexander Pfeiffer et al.   APPLIED ENERGY

The time lag between a carbon dioxide emission and maximum warming increases with the size of the emission

(2015) Kirsten Zickfeld et al.   Environmental Research Letters

The Perils of the Learning Model for Modeling Endogenous Technological Change

(2013) William D. Nordhaus   ENERGY JOURNAL

Impact of delay in reducing carbon dioxide emissions

(2013) Myles R. Allen et al.   Nature Climate Change

Biodiversity loss and its impact on humanity

(2012) Bradley J. Cardinale et al.   NATURE

The proportionality of global warming to cumulative carbon emissions

(2009) H. Damon Matthews et al.   NATURE

Warming caused by cumulative carbon emissions towards the trillionth tonne

(2009) Myles R. Allen et al.   NATURE

Greenhouse-gas emission targets for limiting global warming to 2 °C

(2009) Malte Meinshausen et al.   NATURE

Setting cumulative emissions targets to reduce the risk of dangerous climate change

(2009) K. Zickfeld et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE NATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA

Irreversible climate change due to carbon dioxide emissions

(2009) Susan Solomon et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE NATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA

Stabilizing climate requires near-zero emissions

(2008) H. Damon Matthews et al.   GEOPHYSICAL RESEARCH LETTERS