Nature Communications (Apr 2020)

Self-preservation strategy for approaching global warming targets in the post-Paris Agreement era

  • Yi-Ming Wei,
  • Rong Han,
  • Ce Wang,
  • Biying Yu,
  • Qiao-Mei Liang,
  • Xiao-Chen Yuan,
  • Junjie Chang,
  • Qingyu Zhao,
  • Hua Liao,
  • Baojun Tang,
  • Jinyue Yan,
  • Lijing Cheng,
  • Zili Yang

DOI
https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-020-15453-z
Journal volume & issue
Vol. 11, no. 1
pp. 1 – 13

Abstract

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The emission allocation strategies of global scenarios do not specify the potential benefits from extra climate mitigation efforts. Here the authors show that compared to the current Nationally Distributed Contributions, the proposed self-preservation strategy might generate 126–616 trillion dollars of additional benefits by 2100.