relation: https://pure.iiasa.ac.at/id/eprint/13767/
title: The world's biggest gamble
creator: Rockström, J.
creator: Schellnhuber, H.J.
creator: Hoskins, B.
creator: Ramanathan, V.
creator: Schlosser, P.
creator: Brasseur, G.P.
creator: Gaffney, O.
creator: Nobre, C.
creator: Meinsheusen, M.
creator: Rogelj, J.
creator: Lucht, W.
description: The scale of the decarbonisation challenge to meet the Paris Agreement is underplayed in the public arena. It will require precipitous emission reductions and a new carbon sink on the scale of the ocean sink within 40 years. Even then, the world is extremely likely to overshoot. A catastrophic failure of policy, for example waiting another decade for transformative policy and full commitments to fossil-free economies, will have irreversible and deleterious repercussions for humanity's remaining time on Earth. Only a global zero carbon roadmap will put the world on a course to phase-out greenhouse gas emissions and create the essential carbon sinks for Earth-system stability, without which, world prosperity is not possible.
publisher: Wiley & Sons, Inc.
date: 2016-10-26
type: Article
type: PeerReviewed
format: text
language: en
rights: cc_by_4
identifier: https://pure.iiasa.ac.at/id/eprint/13767/1/2016EF000392.pdf
identifier:   Rockström, J., Schellnhuber, H.J., Hoskins, B., Ramanathan, V., Schlosser, P., Brasseur, G.P., Gaffney, O., Nobre, C., et al.  (2016).  The world's biggest gamble.   Earth's Future 4 (10) 465-470. 10.1002/2016EF000392 <https://doi.org/10.1002/2016EF000392>.       
relation: 10.1002/2016EF000392
identifier: 10.1002/2016EF000392
doi: 10.1002/2016EF000392