Amit Garg is Professor
in the Public Systems Group. His current areas of research interests are
Sustainable Development and Climate Change, Vulnerability Assessment due to
Climate Change, Carbon Finance, Carbon Foot Printing, Public Management, Managing
Energy Businesses and Energy Environment Modelling. amitgarg@iima.ac.in
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What Emission Levels will Comply with Temperature Limits?In Emission Gap Report, edited by Daniel Puig, Bert Metz, Volodymyr Demkine, Nairobi: A UNEP Synthesis Report, 2014Amit Garg The world is moving
towards a crucial new climate agreement in 2015, which could provide the
longneeded global plan to slow down climate change and enable humanity to adapt
to the unavoidable part of a changing climate. While recognizing that some
climate change is unavoidable, global leaders at the 2010 Cancun Climate
Conference agreed to limit global warming to 2 °C in this century, relative to
the pre-industrial period. They also decided to review this limit to see if it
should be further lowered to 1.5 °C. Given the aim to limit global temperature,
the critical question has now become what level of global emissions would make
this possible? The United Nations Environment Programme (UNEP) has tackled this
question since 2010 by convening a large group of knowledgeable scientists to
prepare the Emissions Gap reports. These reports have examined the gap in 2020
between emission levels consistent with the 2 °C limit, and levels expected if
country pledges/commitments are met. In earlier reports the scientists conveyed
the message that indeed a large gap exists, but also that there were many
promising opportunities for bridging the gap.
Co-Authors: Calvin,
Katherine; Clarke, Leon; Crippa, Monica; Jiang, Kejun, Volker,
Lowe, Jason; Maenhour, Greet; Riahi, Keywan; Schaeffer, Michael; Vuuren, Deltef
van and Wenying, Chen
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Abstracts of other Book Chapters authored by IIMA faculty included in this issue
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Archana Dholakia and Ravindra H. Dholakia
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Ernesto Noronha and Premilla D’Cruz
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G. Raghuram and Niraja Shukla
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Archana Dholakia and Ravindra H. Dholakia
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