Nature Communications (Oct 2021)

Deep mitigation of CO2 and non-CO2 greenhouse gases toward 1.5 °C and 2 °C futures

  • Yang Ou,
  • Christopher Roney,
  • Jameel Alsalam,
  • Katherine Calvin,
  • Jared Creason,
  • Jae Edmonds,
  • Allen A. Fawcett,
  • Page Kyle,
  • Kanishka Narayan,
  • Patrick O’Rourke,
  • Pralit Patel,
  • Shaun Ragnauth,
  • Steven J. Smith,
  • Haewon McJeon

DOI
https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-021-26509-z
Journal volume & issue
Vol. 12, no. 1
pp. 1 – 9

Abstract

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Stabilizing climate change requires simultaneous mitigation of all greenhouse gas emissions (GHGs). Here the authors examine 90 mitigation scenarios pairing different levels of CO2 and non-CO2 GHG abatement pathways to demonstrate the contributions of different GHGs towards 1.5 °C and 2 °C goals.