Study: Climate negotiations relying on 'dangerous' thresholds to avoid catastrophe will not succeed
Monday, October 15, 2012 - 16:01
in Earth & Climate
The identified critical threshold for dangerous climate change saying that the increase in global temperature should be below 2 degrees Celsius seems not to have helped the climate negotiations so far. New research from the University of Gothenburg and Columbia University shows that negotiations based on such a threshold fail because its value is determined by Nature and is inherently uncertain. Climate negotiators should therefore focus on other collective strategies.