Public Release: 30-Jul-2018 International Institute for Applied Systems Analysis New IIASA-led research has found that a single climate mitigation scheme applied to all sectors, such as a global carbon tax, could have a serious impact on agriculture and result in far more widespread hunger and food insecurity than the direct impacts of climate change.…
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Numerous countries have fixed carbon neutrality as a policy goal, but according to a new research by an international group of scientists from IIASA, Japan, and the United States, there are a number of risks related to the reduction of greenhouse gases, particularly in the forestry, agriculture, and land use sectors, that need to be taken into consideration when developing mitigation policies.
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With the COP Climate conference in Glasgow only a few months away, the ambitions of the Paris Agreement and the importance of taking action at the national level to reach global climate goals is returning to the spotlight. IIASA researchers and colleagues have proposed a novel systematic and independent scenario framework that could help policymakers assess and compare climate policies and long-term strategies across countries to support coordinated global climate action.
The Paris Agreement defines a long-term temperature goal for international climate policy: holding the increase in the global average temperature to well below 2°C above pre-industrial levels and pursuing efforts to limit the temperature increase to 1.5°C . Its achievement critically depends on actions and policymaking at the regional, national, and subnational level