Lost options commitment: how short-term policies affect long-term scope of action
Physics and Society
2024-02-23 v1 Geophysics
Abstract
We propose to explore the sustainability of climate policies based on a novel commitment metric. This metric allows to quantify how future generations' scope of action is affected by short-term climate policy. In an example application, we show that following a moderate emission scenario like SSP2-4.5 could commit future generations to heavily rely on carbon dioxide removal or/and solar radiation modification to avoid unmanageable sea level rise.
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@article{arxiv.2309.07743,
title = {Lost options commitment: how short-term policies affect long-term scope of action},
author = {Marina Martinez Montero and Nuria Brede and Victor Couplet and Michel Crucifix and Nicola Botta and Claudia Wieners},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2309.07743},
year = {2024}
}
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9 pages, 19 figures