Date: November 2019
Short description: The fundamental aim of PARIS REINFORCE is to enhance and improve climate policymaking. In order to do this, the consortium has access to a range of sophisticated climate-economic scientific models. A key novelty of the project is its devotion to ‘demand-driven’ research. That is, the questions these models will provide insights into and the assumptions they will do this based upon are to be stakeholder-determined through an extensive and exhaustive process.
Authors: Ben McWilliams, Georg Zachmann, Alevgul Sorman, Ester Galende, Ajay Gambhir, Alexandros Nikas, Haris Doukas
Tags: Policy brief Integrated assessment models Climate policy Climate Science Co-creation Policy questions
Date: November 2021
Short description: Small modular reactors are being pitched as an affordable and fast way to decarbonise power grids but questions about the technology abound
Authors: Adam Vaughan
Journal: NewScientist
Links: Fix the Planet newsletter: Can small nuclear power go big?
Tags: Climate Change
Date: April 2021
Short description: Despite the promises made at COP26, the world is still on track for a dangerous amount of warming.
Authors: Steve Hanley
Journal: CleanTechnica
Tags: Cicero Center For Climate Research Climate Change Climate Modeling COP26
Date: November 2021
Short description: Building off a House of Commons declaration from 2019, Independent Sen. Rosa Galvez wants the upper house to declare a national climate emergency.
Authors: John Woodside
Journal: Canada's National Observer
Links: Rosa Galvez Calls for Senate to Declare Climate Emergency
Date: November 2021
Short description: Modellers look at how climate policies might change with time — and find a wide range of possible outcomes, none of them good.
Authors: Haris Doukas
Journal: Nature
Links: Earth is headed for well over two degrees of warming
Tags: Climate Change
Date: November 2021
Short description: During the UN Climate Change Conference of the Parties (COP26) in Glasgow, many analysts rushed to report on the ambition of nations, predicting a future as predicted by climate pledges announced. A new study, that the National Technical University of Athens took part in, raises serious questions, estimating the predictions made entail great uncertainty, despite the pretext for reassurance.
Journal: Ecopress
Links: NTUA: New Study Questions Estimates For COP26 Pledges
Tags: Climate Crisis COP26
Date: November 2021
Short description: During the UN Climate Change Conference of the Parties (COP26) in Glasgow, many analysts rushed to report on the ambition of nations, predicting a future as predicted by climate pledges announced. A new study, that the National Technical University of Athens took part in, raises serious questions, estimating the predictions made entail great uncertainty, despite the pretext for reassurance.
Authors: Newsroom
Journal: Energymag
Links: Climate Crisis: New Study Questions the Effectiveness of Policy Pledges
Date: November 2021
Short description: Paris (AFP) – UN projections of how much current climate policies and national pledges to cut carbon pollution will slow global warming are more uncertain than widely assumed, researchers reported Monday.
Authors: AFP
Journal: France 24
Date: November 2021
Short description: In the aftermath of the United Nations’ annual climate conference earlier this month, scientists have a sobering message: The world still is not on track to meet its international climate goals.
Authors: Chelsea Harvey
Journal: Scientific Αmerican
Links: Climate Pledges Still Not Enough to Keep Warming Below 2-Degree Limit
Date: November 2021
Short description: The COP26 climate talks in Glasgow ended with some progress, though not enough to ensure the world avoids catastrophic climate impacts. If countries meet their pledges, greenhouse emissions in 2030 will be slightly lower than previously projected. But a new report warns that the decline doesn’t mean we’re safe.
Authors: Akshat Rathi
Journal: Bloomberg
Links: Making Sense of the Narratives After the Glasgow Climate Talks
Date: November 2021
Short description: A new analysis by researchers from the EU Horizon 2020 project 'Paris Reinforce', including Imperial College London's Dr Ajay Gambhir, has found that the impact of climate policies is more uncertain than is often assumed by policymakers.
Authors: Conrad Duncan
Journal: Imperial College London
Links: "Large Uncertainties" over Warming Outcomes from Current Climate Policies
Tags: Climate Change Environment Sustainability
Date: November 2021
Short description: Despite the commitments made by the signatory countries of the Paris agreement, the authors of a study published in the journal "Nature Climate Change" estimate that the average temperature on Earth could increase from 2.2 ° C to 2.9 ° C by 2100.
Journal: Franceinfo
Links: Global Warming: UN Projections May Be Too Optimistic, Study Finds (in French)
Date: November 2021
Short description: A new analysis casts doubt on whether scientists can precisely estimate how much nations' combined emissions-cutting pledges will stem global warming, instead showing a wide range of potential outcomes.
Authors: Andrew Freedman
Journal: AXIOS
Links: Study Casts Doubt on Climate Emissions Pledge Estimates
Date: November 2021
Short description: Researchers have calculated the most likely course of greenhouse gas emissions by the end of the century, based on today's climate policy. A temperature rise of less than two degrees is almost impossible.
Journal: SPIEGEL
Links: The Εarth Could Warm up by 2.9 Degrees by 2100 (in German)
Tags: Climate Crisis Carbon Dioxide Global Warming
Date: November 2021
Short description: Confident claims that promises made by world leaders will drastically reign in global warming could be wildly off the mark, according to a major new international study.
Authors: David Vetter
Journal: Forbes
Links: After COP26, New Research Warns Climate Forecasts Could Be Way Off Target
