Radical Emissions Reduction Conference

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For your holiday viewing – Radical Emissions Reduction Conference
All of the presentations from last week’s #radicalplan Radical Emissions Reduction Conference are now online for viewing at your leisure. http://www.tyndall.ac.uk/communication/ ... now-online

or your holiday reading - Christmas Number 1 at Climate Policy
You may also be interested to know that peaking at the top of the the Christmas charts is the most read paper at Climate Policy ‘Two degrees: now is the time to debate the climate policy target’ by Professor Andy Jordan at the University of East Anglia and ten colleagues from the Tyndall Centre for Climate Change Research. Their top hit explores how policy makers can work with the uncomfortable knowledge that the prospects for holding average global warming to below two degrees Celsius are rapidly decreasing. http://www.tandfonline.com/doi/abs/10.1 ... lZyElCsh8F Please share widely as the paper is Open Access.

Happy holidays
From Asher Minns and the people at the Tyndall Centre

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Since the mid-1990s, the aim of keeping climate change within 2 8C has become firmly entrenched in policy discourses. In the
past few years, the likelihood of achieving it has been increasingly called into question. The debate around what to do with a
target that seems less and less achievable is, however, only just beginning. As the UN commences a two-year review of the 28C
target, this article moves beyond the somewhat binary debates about whether or not it should or will be met, in order to analyse
more fully some of the alternative options that have been identified but not fully explored in the existing literature. For the first time,
uncertainties, risks, and opportunities associated with four such options are identified and synthesized from the literature. The
analysis finds that the significant risks and uncertainties associated with some options may encourage decision makers to
recommit to the 28C target as the least unattractive course of action

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