Pub Date : 2023-02-17DOI: 10.1007/s40641-023-00189-x
M. Moure, J. Jacobsen, C. Smith-Hall
{"title":"Uncertainty and Climate Change Adaptation: a Systematic Review of Research Approaches and People’s Decision-Making","authors":"M. Moure, J. Jacobsen, C. Smith-Hall","doi":"10.1007/s40641-023-00189-x","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1007/s40641-023-00189-x","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":54235,"journal":{"name":"Current climate change reports","volume":"9 1","pages":"1-26"},"PeriodicalIF":9.5,"publicationDate":"2023-02-17","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"48675244","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":1,"RegionCategory":"地球科学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Pub Date : 2022-10-18DOI: 10.1007/s40641-022-00187-5
Xi Yang, Yiying Gao, Mingzhe Zhu, C. Springer
{"title":"Assessing Methane Emissions From the Natural Gas Industry: Reviewing the Case of China in a Comparative Framework","authors":"Xi Yang, Yiying Gao, Mingzhe Zhu, C. Springer","doi":"10.1007/s40641-022-00187-5","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1007/s40641-022-00187-5","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":54235,"journal":{"name":"Current climate change reports","volume":"8 1","pages":"115 - 124"},"PeriodicalIF":9.5,"publicationDate":"2022-10-18","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"52753911","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":1,"RegionCategory":"地球科学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Pub Date : 2022-08-20DOI: 10.1007/s40641-022-00185-7
D. Rosenbloom, J. Meadowcroft
{"title":"Accelerating Pathways to Net Zero: Governance Strategies from Transition Studies and the Transition Accelerator","authors":"D. Rosenbloom, J. Meadowcroft","doi":"10.1007/s40641-022-00185-7","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1007/s40641-022-00185-7","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":54235,"journal":{"name":"Current climate change reports","volume":"8 1","pages":"104 - 114"},"PeriodicalIF":9.5,"publicationDate":"2022-08-20","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"42259061","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":1,"RegionCategory":"地球科学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Pub Date : 2022-08-17DOI: 10.1007/s40641-022-00184-8
M. Dickau, H. Matthews, K. Tokarska
{"title":"The Role of Remaining Carbon Budgets and Net-Zero CO2 Targets in Climate Mitigation Policy","authors":"M. Dickau, H. Matthews, K. Tokarska","doi":"10.1007/s40641-022-00184-8","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1007/s40641-022-00184-8","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":54235,"journal":{"name":"Current climate change reports","volume":"191 ","pages":"91 - 103"},"PeriodicalIF":9.5,"publicationDate":"2022-08-17","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"41272799","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":1,"RegionCategory":"地球科学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Pub Date : 2022-06-13DOI: 10.1007/s40641-022-00183-9
M. Strack, S. Davidson, T. Hirano, Christian Dunn
{"title":"The Potential of Peatlands as Nature-Based Climate Solutions","authors":"M. Strack, S. Davidson, T. Hirano, Christian Dunn","doi":"10.1007/s40641-022-00183-9","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1007/s40641-022-00183-9","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":54235,"journal":{"name":"Current climate change reports","volume":"8 1","pages":"71 - 82"},"PeriodicalIF":9.5,"publicationDate":"2022-06-13","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"45433829","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":1,"RegionCategory":"地球科学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Pub Date : 2022-02-05DOI: 10.1007/s40641-021-00177-z
J. Neelin, C. Martinez‐Villalobos, S. Stechmann, F. Ahmed, Gang Chen, J. Norris, Yi‐Hung Kuo, G. Lenderink
{"title":"Precipitation Extremes and Water Vapor","authors":"J. Neelin, C. Martinez‐Villalobos, S. Stechmann, F. Ahmed, Gang Chen, J. Norris, Yi‐Hung Kuo, G. Lenderink","doi":"10.1007/s40641-021-00177-z","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1007/s40641-021-00177-z","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":54235,"journal":{"name":"Current climate change reports","volume":"8 1","pages":"17-33"},"PeriodicalIF":9.5,"publicationDate":"2022-02-05","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"48546013","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":1,"RegionCategory":"地球科学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Pub Date : 2022-01-24DOI: 10.1007/s40641-022-00179-5
John W. Williams, B. Huntley, A. Seddon
{"title":"Climate Sensitivity and Ecoclimate Sensitivity: Theory, Usage, and Past Implications for the Future Biospheric Responses","authors":"John W. Williams, B. Huntley, A. Seddon","doi":"10.1007/s40641-022-00179-5","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1007/s40641-022-00179-5","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":54235,"journal":{"name":"Current climate change reports","volume":"1 1","pages":"1-16"},"PeriodicalIF":9.5,"publicationDate":"2022-01-24","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"49409770","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":1,"RegionCategory":"地球科学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Pub Date : 2022-01-01Epub Date: 2022-04-27DOI: 10.1007/s40641-022-00182-w
Anders Bjørn, Joachim Peter Tilsted, Amr Addas, Shannon M Lloyd
Purpose of review: Companies increasingly set science-based targets (SBTs) for reducing greenhouse gas emissions. We review literature on SBTs to understand their potential for aligning corporate emissions with the temperature goal of the Paris Agreement.
Recent findings: SBT adoption by larger, more visible companies in high-income countries has accelerated. These companies tend to have a good prior reputation for managing climate impacts and most appear on track for meeting their scope 1 and 2 SBTs. More research is needed to distinguish between substantive and symbolic target-setting and understand how companies plan to achieve established SBTs. There is no consensus on whether current target-setting methods appropriately allocate emissions to individual companies or how much freedom companies should have in setting SBTs. Current emission accounting practices, target-setting methods, SBT governance, and insufficient transparency may allow companies to report some emission reductions that are not real and may result in insufficient collective emission reductions. Lower rates of SBT diffusion in low- and middle-income countries, in certain emission-intensive sectors, and by small- and medium-sized enterprises pose potential barriers for mainstreaming SBTs. While voluntary SBTs cannot substitute for more ambitious climate policy, it is unclear whether they delay or encourage policy needed for Paris alignment.
Summary: We find evidence that SBT adoption corresponds to increased climate action. However, there is a need for further research from a diversity of approaches to better understand how SBTs may facilitate or hinder a just transition to low-carbon societies.
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