Learning about climate change solutions in the IPCC and beyond

Minx, Jan C.; Callaghan, Max; Lamb, William F.; Garard, Jennifer; Edenhofer, Ottmar

doi:10.1016/j.envsci.2017.05.014

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“…The act of synthesizing adequate scientific evidence for advising policy is both aided and hampered by, firstly, the recent explosion of accessible scientific information and, secondly, the sheer breadth of the SDG agenda, which spans a diverse array of scientific communities and disciplines (Le Blanc 2015, ICSU 2017, Minx et al 2017a. In these times of 'big literature', where it becomes impossible for researchers to comprehensively track and keep up with all the progress in their field at all times, the application of systematic review methodologies alongside 'big data' applications for research synthesis has become crucial for avoiding major selection biases in assessment exercises (Minx et al 2017a, 2017b, Nunez-Mir et al 2016. What is more, the availability of systematic reviews-like that performed in the current paperwill become a pre-condition for those conducting even more comprehensive scientific assessments on the SDGs going forward, such as the UN's 2019 Global Sustainable Development Report, currently being written (UN-GSDR 2017), which aims to simultaneously address all sustainable goal development goals and their interactions.…”

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Connecting the sustainable development goals by their energy inter-linkages

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View the article online for updates and enhancements. Recent citationsTargeted policies can compensate most of the increased sustainability risks in 1. 5 AbstractThe United Nations' Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) provide guide-posts to society as it attempts to respond to an array of pressing challenges. One of these challenges is energy; thus, the SDGs have become paramount for energy policy-making. Yet, while governments throughout the world have already declared the SDGs to be 'integrated and indivisible', there are still knowledge gaps surrounding how the interactions between the energy SDG targets and those of the non-energy-focused SDGs might play out in different contexts. In this review, we report on a large-scale assessment of the relevant energy literature, which we conducted to better our understanding of key energy-related interactions between SDGs, as well as their context-dependencies (relating to time, geography, governance, technology, and directionality). By (i) evaluating the nature and strength of the interactions identified, (ii) indicating the robustness of the evidence base, the agreement of that evidence, and our confidence in it, and (iii) highlighting critical areas where better understanding is needed or context dependencies should be considered, our review points to potential ways forward for both the policy making and scientific communities. First, we find that positive interactions between the SDGs outweigh the negative ones, both in number and magnitude. Second, of relevance for the scientific community, in order to fill knowledge gaps in critical areas, there is an urgent need for interdisciplinary research geared toward developing new data, scientific tools, and fresh perspectives. Third, of relevance for policy-making, wider efforts to promote policy coherence and integrated assessments are required to address potential policy spillovers across sectors, sustainability domains, and geographic and temporal boundaries. The task of conducting comprehensive science-to-policy assessments covering all SDGs, such as for the UN's Global Sustainable Development Report, remains manageable pending the availability of systematic reviews focusing on a limited number of SDG dimensions in each case.

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Connecting the sustainable development goals by their energy inter-linkages

McCollum

Echeverri

Busch

et al. 2018

Environ. Res. Lett.

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“…Literature review methods are rarely discussed in the field of climate change research, despite their central importance to knowledge synthesis and policy-relevant assessments (Minx et al 2017a, Ringquist 2013, Petticrew and Roberts 2008, Petticrew and McCartney 2017, Higgins and Green 2008. Typical reviews take on a narrative form and aim to survey the literature around one or more key themes, to the best of the author's knowledge.…”

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“…Such a methodology has the advantage of greater transparency and reproducibility, but suffers from the obvious problem of increased time commitment. Nonetheless, formalizing reviews in this manner is arguably a necessary step to rigorously examining contentious science-policy issues (Minx et al 2017a), of which NETs are a signal example.…”

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Negative emissions—Part 1: Research landscape and synthesis

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“…The temperature targets of the Paris Agreement are associated with small and rapidly declining carbon budgets (Millar et al 2017, Rogelj et al 2015, and indicates a need for carbon dioxide removal (CDR) to compensate from lack of mitigation commitments by nations, cf current National Determined Contributions (NDCs) (Minx et al 2017). Of the 400 Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) climate scenarios that have a 50% or better chance of less than 2 • C warming, 344 assume the successful and large-scale uptake of negative emission technologies such as Bio-Energy with Carbon Capture and Storage (BECCS).…”

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The role of large—scale BECCS in the pursuit of the 1.5°C target: an Earth system model perspective

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2018

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The increasing awareness of the many damaging aspects of climate change has prompted research into ways of reducing and reversing the anthropogenic increase in carbon concentrations in the atmosphere. Most emission scenarios stabilizing climate at low levels, such as the 1.5 • C target as outlined by the Paris Agreement, require large-scale deployment of Bio-Energy with Carbon Capture and Storage (BECCS). Here, the potential of large-scale BECCS deployment in contributing towards the 1.5 • C global warming target is evaluated using an Earth system model, as well as associated climate responses and carbon cycle feedbacks. The geographical location of the bioenergy feedstock is shown to be key to the success of such measures in the context of temperature targets. Although net negative emissions were reached sooner, by ∼6 years, and scaled up, land use change emissions and reductions in forest carbon sinks outweigh these effects in one scenario. Re-cultivating mid-latitudes was found to be beneficial, on the other hand, contributing in the right direction towards the 1.5 • C target, only by −0.1 • C and −54 Gt C in avoided emissions, however. Obstacles remain related to competition for land from nature preservation and food security, as well as the technological availability of CCS.

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Learning about climate change solutions in the IPCC and beyond

Cited by 140 publications

References 40 publications

Connecting the sustainable development goals by their energy inter-linkages

Connecting the sustainable development goals by their energy inter-linkages

Negative emissions—Part 1: Research landscape and synthesis

The role of large—scale BECCS in the pursuit of the 1.5°C target: an Earth system model perspective

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