PA51A:
Carbon Budgets, Emissions Pathways, and the Risks of Missing the 2°C Target: Can We Better Inform Policy? Posters

Session ID#: 3715

Friday, 19 December 2014: 8:00 AM-12:20 PM
Poster Hall (Moscone_South)
Chairs:  Caitlin M Augustin, University of Miami, Miami, FL, United States and Melanie F Fitzpatrick, Union of Concerned Scientists Berkeley, Berkeley, CA, United States
Primary Convener:  Melanie F Fitzpatrick, Union of Concerned Scientists, Berkeley, CA, United States
Co-conveners:  Reto Knutti, ETH Zurich, Zurich, Switzerland, Michael Mastrandrea, Carnegie Institution, Millbrae, CA, United States and Paul G Baer, Union of Concerned Scientists Berkeley, Berkeley, CA, United States; EcoEquity, Oakland, CA, United States
OSPA Liaison:  Melanie F Fitzpatrick, Union of Concerned Scientists Berkeley, Berkeley, CA, United States
Co-Sponsor(s):
  • GC - Global Environmental Change
Index Terms:

1622 Earth system modeling [GLOBAL CHANGE]
1630 Impacts of global change [GLOBAL CHANGE]
6309 Decision making under uncertainty [POLICY SCIENCES]
6620 Science policy [PUBLIC ISSUES]
Virtual Option?: No

Abstracts Submitted to this Session:

 
PA51A-4039
Policy considerations for using cumulative carbon emissions as a guide (Invited) (5124)
Joeri Rogelj, IIASA International Institute for Applied Systems Analysis, Laxenburg, Austria
 
PA51A-4040
How Sensitive Is the Carbon Budget Approach to Potential Carbon Cycle Changes? (Invited) (6020)
Damon Matthews, Concordia University, Department of Geography, Planning and Environment, Montreal, QC, Canada
 
PA51A-4041
The Risks of Missing the 2°C Target and the Risks of Framing the Target As 2°C (Invited) (4880)
Lauren Hartzell Nichols, University of Washington Seattle Campus, Seattle, WA, United States
 
PA51A-4042
Continued global warming after CO2 emissions stoppage (21675)
Thomas L Froelicher, Universtity of Bern, Climate and Environmental Physics, Bern, Switzerland, Michael Winton, NOAA/GFDL, Princeton, NJ, United States and Jorge L Sarmiento, Princeton University, Atmospheric and Oceanic Sciences Program, Princeton, NJ, United States
 
PA51A-4043
Equity and the Allocation of Miigation Burdens: A Carbon Budgets Approach (22002)
Tejal Tata Institute of Social Scien Kanitkar, National Institute of Advanced Studies, Energy and Environment Program, Bengaluru, India
 
PA51A-4044
Long-term perspective underscores need for stronger near-term policies on climate change (30254)
Shaun A Marcott1,2, Jeremy D Shakun3, Peter U Clark4, Alan C Mix4, Raymond Pierrehumbert5 and Aaron P Goldner6, (1)University of Wisconsin-Madison, Department of Geoscience, Madison, United States, (2)University of Wisconsin Madison, Department of Geoscience, Madison, United States, (3)Boston College, Department of Earth and Environmental Sciences, Chestnut Hill, MA, United States, (4)Oregon State University, Corvallis, OR, United States, (5)Univ of Chicago, Chicago, IL, United States, (6)American Association for the Advancement of Science Washington DC, Department of Energy, Washington, DC, United States
 
PA51A-4045
Designing Surface Monitoring Meshes for Geologic Carbon Capture and Storage Sites: Accurate Emissions Accounting for an Essential 2°C Mitigation Technology (31571)
Caitlin M Augustin1, Peter K Swart2 and Kenneth Broad1, (1)Univ Miami, Miami, FL, United States, (2)University of Miami, Department of Marine Geosciences, Miami, United States
 
PA51A-4047
The role of artificial atmospheric CO2 removal in stabilizing Earth’s climate (23943)
Katarzyna B Tokarska, University of Edinburgh, School of Geosciences, Edinburgh, United Kingdom; University of Victoria, Victoria, BC, Canada and Kirsten Zickfeld, Simon Fraser University, Geography, Burnaby, BC, Canada
 
PA51A-4048
Seeing the risks of multiple Arctic amplifying feedbacks. (20539)
Peter Carter, Climate Emergency Institute, Washington, DC, United States
 
PA51A-4049
Group Poster Discussion 10 am to 11 am
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