Assessing the remaining carbon budget through the lens of policy-driven acidification and temperature targets

• Published in: Climatic change Vol. 176; no. 9; p. 128
• Main Authors: Avrutin, Sandy, Goodwin, Philip, Ezard, Thomas H. G.
• Format: Journal Article
• Language: English
• Published: Dordrecht Springer Netherlands 01.09.2023; Springer Nature B.V
• Subjects: Acidification; Aragonite; Atmospheric Sciences; Carbon; Carbon budget; Carbon dioxide; Carbon emissions; climate; Climate change; Climate Change/Climate Change Impacts; Coral growth; Corals; Damage prevention; Earth and Environmental Science; Earth Sciences; Emissions; global carbon budget; Marine ecosystems; Ocean acidification; Ocean warming; Oceans; Paris Agreement; Saturation; temperature; Uncertainty; United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change; Warming; Acidification; Earth Systems Model; Remaining carbon budget

Basing a remaining carbon budget on warming targets is subject to uncertainty due to uncertainty in the relationship between carbon emissions and warming. Framing emissions targets using a warming target therefore may not prevent dangerous change throughout the entire Earth system. Here, we use a cl...