The human imperative of stabilizing global climate change at 1.5°C.
- Hoegh-Guldberg O Global Change Institute, University of Queensland, St. Lucia, QLD 4072, Australia. oveh@uq.edu.au.
- Jacob D Climate Service Center Germany (GERICS), Helmholtz-Zentrum Geesthacht, Hamburg, Germany.
- Taylor M Department of Physics, University of the West Indies, Kingston, Jamaica.
- Guillén Bolaños T Climate Service Center Germany (GERICS), Helmholtz-Zentrum Geesthacht, Hamburg, Germany.
- Bindi M Department of Agriculture, Food, Environment and Forestry (DAGRI), University of Florence, 50144 Firenze, Italy.
- Brown S Faculty of Engineering and Physical Sciences, University of Southampton, Boldrewood Innovation Campus, Southampton SO16 7QF, UK.
- Camilloni IA Centro de Investigaciones del Mar y la Atmósfera (UBA-CONICET), UMI-IFAECI/CNRS, and Departamento de Ciencias de la Atmósfera y los Océanos (FCEN), University of Buenos Aires, Buenos Aires, Argentina.
- Diedhiou A Université Grenoble Alpes, French National Research Institute for Sustainable Development (IRD), CNRS, Grenoble INP, IGE, F-38000 Grenoble, France.
- Djalante R United Nations University-Institute for the Advanced Study of Sustainability (UNU-IAS), Tokyo, Japan.
- Ebi K Center for Health and the Global Environment, University of Washington, Seattle, WA, USA.
- Engelbrecht F Global Change Institute, University of the Witwatersrand, Johannesburg 2193, South Africa.
- Guiot J Aix Marseille University, CNRS, IRD, INRA, Collège de France, CEREGE, Aix-en-Provence, France.
- Hijioka Y Center for Climate Change Adaptation, National Institute for Environmental Studies, Onogawa, Tsukuba, Ibaraki 305-8506, Japan.
- Mehrotra S World Bank, Washington, DC, USA.
- Hope CW Cambridge Judge Business School, University of Cambridge, Cambridge, UK.
- Payne AJ University of Bristol, Bristol, UK.
- Pörtner HO Alfred Wegener Institute, Helmholtz Centre for Polar and Marine Research, Bremerhaven, Germany.
- Seneviratne SI Institute for Atmospheric and Climate Science, ETH Zurich, Zurich, Switzerland.
- Thomas A Climate Analytics, 10961 Berlin, Germany.
- Warren R Tyndall Centre for Climate Change Research and School of Environmental Sciences, University of East Anglia, Norwich NR4 7TJ, UK.
- Zhou G State Key Laboratory of Severe Weather, Chinese Academy of Meteorological Sciences, Beijing 100081, China.
- 2019-10-12
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- Science (New York, N.Y.). - 2019
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Increased concentrations of atmospheric greenhouse gases have led to a global mean surface temperature 1.0°C higher than during the pre-industrial period. We expand on the recent IPCC Special Report on global warming of 1.5°C and review the additional risks associated with higher levels of warming, each having major implications for multiple geographies, climates, and ecosystems. Limiting warming to 1.5°C rather than 2.0°C would be required to maintain substantial proportions of ecosystems and would have clear benefits for human health and economies. These conclusions are relevant for people everywhere, particularly in low- and middle-income countries, where the escalation of climate-related risks may prevent the achievement of the United Nations Sustainable Development Goals.
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- DOI 10.1126/science.aaw6974
- PMID 31604209
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