Why the right climate target was agreed in Paris

The geographical distribution of fossil fuels unused when limiting global warming to 2 °C

(2015) Christophe McGlade et al.   NATURE

Policy: Climate advisers must maintain integrity

(2015) Oliver Geden   NATURE

Planetary boundaries: Guiding human development on a changing planet

(2015) W. Steffen et al.   SCIENCE

Energy system transformations for limiting end-of-century warming to below 1.5 °C

(2015) Joeri Rogelj et al.   Nature Climate Change

Biophysical and economic limits to negative CO2 emissions

(2015) Pete Smith et al.   Nature Climate Change

Widespread, rapid grounding line retreat of Pine Island, Thwaites, Smith, and Kohler glaciers, West Antarctica, from 1992 to 2011

(2014) E. Rignot et al.   GEOPHYSICAL RESEARCH LETTERS

Climate policy: Ditch the 2 °C warming goal

(2014) David G. Victor et al.   NATURE

A Reconstruction of Regional and Global Temperature for the Past 11,300 Years

(2013) S. A. Marcott et al.   SCIENCE

Arctic Climate Tipping Points

(2012) Timothy M. Lenton   AMBIO

Global warming preceded by increasing carbon dioxide concentrations during the last deglaciation

(2012) Jeremy D. Shakun et al.   NATURE

Limiting global warming to 2 °C is unlikely to save most coral reefs

(2012) K. Frieler et al.   Nature Climate Change

Multistability and critical thresholds of the Greenland ice sheet

(2012) Alexander Robinson et al.   Nature Climate Change

Long-term sea-level rise implied by 1.5 °C and 2 °C warming levels

(2012) Michiel Schaeffer et al.   Nature Climate Change

Global warming under old and new scenarios using IPCC climate sensitivity range estimates

(2012) Joeri Rogelj et al.   Nature Climate Change

The Anthropocene: From Global Change to Planetary Stewardship

(2011) Will Steffen et al.   AMBIO

Potential climatic transitions with profound impact on Europe

(2011) Anders Levermann et al.   CLIMATIC CHANGE

Tragic triumph

(2010) Hans Joachim Schellnhuber   CLIMATIC CHANGE

Three views of two degrees

(2010) Carlo C. Jaeger et al.   Regional Environmental Change

A safe operating space for humanity

(2009) Johan Rockström et al.   NATURE

Tipping elements in the Earth's climate system

(2008) T. M. Lenton et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE NATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA