Study provides scenarios for assessing long-term benefits of climate action
Wednesday, September 2, 2015 - 07:00
in Earth & Climate
Since the 1990s, scientists and policymakers have proposed limiting Earth's average global surface temperature to 2 degrees C above pre-industrial levels, thereby averting the most serious effects of global warming, such as severe droughts and coastal flooding. But until recently, they lacked a comprehensive estimate of the likely social and economic benefits—from lives saved to economies preserved—that would result from greenhouse gas emissions reduction policies designed to achieve the 2 C goal.