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Potential European Emissions Trajectories within the Global Carbon Budget

Ilaria Perissi
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Falsini Sara
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Ugo Bardi
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Davide Natalini
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Michael Green
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Aled Jones
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Jordi Solé
Version 1 : Received: 16 October 2018 / Approved: 16 October 2018 / Online: 16 October 2018 (14:50:19 CEST)
Version 3 : Received: 16 November 2018 / Approved: 16 November 2018 / Online: 16 November 2018 (14:23:30 CET)

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Perissi, I.; Falsini, S.; Bardi, U.; Natalini, D.; Green, M.; Jones, A.; Solé, J. Potential European Emissions Trajectories within the Global Carbon Budget. Sustainability 2018, 10, 4225. Perissi, I.; Falsini, S.; Bardi, U.; Natalini, D.; Green, M.; Jones, A.; Solé, J. Potential European Emissions Trajectories within the Global Carbon Budget. Sustainability 2018, 10, 4225.

Abstract

The Global Carbon Budget is the cumulative carbon emissions that human activities can generate while limiting the global temperature increase to less than 2°C. On this basis, most countries ratified the Paris Agreement 2015, pledging to reduce national emissions and the impacts of climate change. The European Union has planned to reduce emissions by 80% of their 1990 value by 2050 but such a target needs to be coupled with a further constraint on the cumulative greenhouse gases released along the path to 2050. The aim and the novelty of this study are to propose, for the first time, a carbon budget for the European Union, which represents the most significant physical characteristic to assess the feasibility of current EU-28 greenhouse gas reduction objectives under the goals of the 2015 Paris treaty

Keywords

carbon budget, greenhouse gases, decarbonization, climate change

Subject

Social Sciences, Political Science

Copyright: This is an open access article distributed under the Creative Commons Attribution License which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited.

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