Can updated climate pledges limit warming well below 2°C?: Increased ambition and implementation are essential

Ya Ng Ou; Gokul Iyer; Leon Clarke; Jae Edmonds; Allen A. Fawcett; Nathan Hultman; James R. McFarland; Matthew Binsted; Ryna Cui; Claire Fyson; Andreas Geiges; Sofia Gonzales-Zuñiga; Matthew J. Gidden; Niklas Höhne; Louise Jeffery; Takeshi Kuramochi; Jared Lewis; Malte Meinshausen; Zebedee Nicholls; Pralit Patel; Shaun Ragnauth; Joeri Rogelj; Stephanie Waldhoff; Sha Yu; Haewon McJeon

doi:10.1126/science.abl8976

Can updated climate pledges limit warming well below 2°C? Increased ambition and implementation are essential

Ya Ng Ou, Gokul Iyer, Leon Clarke, Jae Edmonds, Allen A. Fawcett, Nathan Hultman, James R. McFarland, Matthew Binsted, Ryna Cui, Claire Fyson, Andreas Geiges, Sofia Gonzales-Zuñiga, Matthew J. Gidden, Niklas Höhne, Louise Jeffery, Takeshi Kuramochi, Jared Lewis, Malte Meinshausen, Zebedee Nicholls, Pralit PatelShaun Ragnauth, Joeri Rogelj, Stephanie Waldhoff, Sha Yu, Haewon McJeon^*

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Original language	English
Pages (from-to)	693-695
Number of pages	3
Journal	Science
Volume	374
Issue number	6568
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1126/science.abl8976
Publication status	Published - 5 Nov 2021

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Ou, Y. N., Iyer, G., Clarke, L., Edmonds, J., Fawcett, A. A., Hultman, N., McFarland, J. R., Binsted, M., Cui, R., Fyson, C., Geiges, A., Gonzales-Zuñiga, S., Gidden, M. J., Höhne, N., Jeffery, L., Kuramochi, T., Lewis, J., Meinshausen, M., Nicholls, Z., ... McJeon, H. (2021). Can updated climate pledges limit warming well below 2°C? Increased ambition and implementation are essential. Science, 374(6568), 693-695. https://doi.org/10.1126/science.abl8976

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