Mitigation and adaptation emissions embedded in the broader climate transition.

ABSTRACT: Climate change necessitates a global effort to reduce greenhouse gas emissions while adapting to increased climate risks. This broader climate transition will involve large-scale global interventions including renewable energy deployment, coastal protection and retreat, and enhanced space cooling, all of which will result in CO₂ emissions from energy and materials use. Yet, the magnitude of the emissions embedded in these interventions remains unconstrained, opening the potential for underaccounting of emissions and conflicts or synergies between mitigation and adaptation goals. Here, we use a suite of models to estimate the CO₂ emissions embedded in the broader climate transition. For a gradual decarbonization pathway limiting warming to 2 °C, selected adaptation-rel

SUBMITTER: Lesk C 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC9704734 | biostudies-literature | 2022 Nov

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature