@article{iiasa14498,
          volume = {355},
          number = {6331},
           month = {March},
           title = {A roadmap for rapid decarbonization},
       publisher = {American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS)},
            year = {2017},
         journal = {Science},
             doi = {10.1126/science.aah3443},
           pages = {1269--1271},
             url = {https://pure.iiasa.ac.at/id/eprint/14498/},
            issn = {1095-9203},
        abstract = {Although the Paris Agreement's goals (1) are aligned with science (2) and can, in principle, be technically and economically achieved (3), alarming inconsistencies remain between science-based targets and national commitments. Despite progress during the 2016 Marrakech climate negotiations, long-term goals can be trumped by political short-termism. Following the Agreement, which became international law earlier than expected, several countries published mid-century decarbonization strategies, with more due soon. Model-based decarbonization assessments (4) and scenarios often struggle to capture transformative change and the dynamics associated with it: disruption, innovation, and nonlinear change in human behavior. For example, in just 2 years, China's coal use swung from 3.7\% growth in 2013 to a decline of 3.7\% in 2015 (5). To harness these dynamics and to calibrate for short-term realpolitik, we propose framing the decarbonization challenge in terms of a global decadal roadmap based on a simple heuristic-a "carbon law"-of halving gross anthropogenic carbon-dioxide (CO2) emissions every decade. Complemented by immediately instigated, scalable carbon removal and efforts to ramp down land-use CO2 emissions, this can lead to net-zero emissions around mid-century, a path necessary to limit warming to well below 2oC.},
          author = {Rockstr{\"o}m, J. and Gaffney, O. and Rogelj, J. and Meinshausen, M. and Nakicenovic, N. and Schellnhuber, H. J.}
}