Paris Agreement requires substantial, broad, and sustained engagements beyond COVID-19 public stimulus packages

no code implementations • 16 Apr 2021 • Katsumasa Tanaka, Christian Azar, Olivier Boucher, Philippe Ciais, Yann Gaucher, Daniel J. A. Johansson

It has been claimed that COVID-19 public stimulus packages could be sufficient to meet the short-term energy investment needs to leverage a shift toward a pathway consistent with the 1. 5 degrees C target of the Paris Agreement.

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Global Daily CO$_2$ emissions for the year 2020

no code implementations • 3 Mar 2021 • Zhu Liu, Zhu Deng, Philippe Ciais, Jianguang Tan, Biqing Zhu, Steven J. Davis, Robbie Andrew, Olivier Boucher, Simon Ben Arous, Pep Canadel, Xinyu Dou, Pierre Friedlingstein, Pierre Gentine, Rui Guo, Chaopeng Hong, Robert B. Jackson, Daniel M. Kammen, Piyu Ke, Corinne Le Quere, Crippa Monica, Greet Janssens-Maenhout, Glen Peters, Katsumasa Tanaka, Yilong Wang, Bo Zheng, Haiwang Zhong, Taochun Sun, Hans Joachim Schellnhuber

That even substantial world-wide lockdowns of activity led to a one-time decline in global CO$_2$ emissions of only 5. 4% in one year highlights the significant challenges for climate change mitigation that we face in the post-COVID era.

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