Stephen W Pacala

Biographic Data

ID3476727
NAMEStephen W Pacala
GIVEN NAMESStephen W
FAMILY NAMEPacala
SIGNATUREPACALA S W
AFFILIATIONSPrinceton University
ORCID0000-0003-4450-6532
VERIFIEDYes
TOTAL WORKS8
TOTAL CITATIONS0
WORKS AS AUTHOR8
WORKS AS EDITOR0
FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR2004
LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR2021
H-INDEX0

  • Acting rapidly to deploy readily available methane mitigation measures by sector can immediately slow global warming

    Open AccessIlissa Ocko, Tianyi Sun et al.ARTICLEEnvironmental Research Letters2021

    Methane mitigation is essential for addressing climate change, but the value of rapidly implementing available mitigation measures is not well understood. In this paper, we analyze the climate benefits of fast action to reduce methane emissions as compared to slower and delayed mitigation timelines. We find that the scale up and deployment of greatly underutilized but available mitigation measures will have significant near-term temperature benef…

  • Environmental integrity of emissions reductions depends on scale and systemic changes, not sector of origin

    Open AccessStephan Schwartzman, Ruben N Lubowski et al.ARTICLEEnvironmental Research Letters2021

  • Climate-driven risks to the climate mitigation potential of forests

    Open AccessWilliam R L Anderegg, Anna T Trugman et al.ARTICLEScience2020

    Risks to mitigation potential of forests Much recent attention has focused on the potential of trees and forests to mitigate ongoing climate change by acting as sinks for carbon. Anderegg et al. review the growing evidence that forests' climate mitigation potential is increasingly at risk from a range of adversities that limit forest growth and health. These include physical factors such as drought and fire and biotic factors, including the depre…

  • Assessment of methane emissions from the U.S. oil and gas supply chain

    Open AccessRamón A Alvarez, Daniel Zavala‐Araiza et al.ARTICLEScience2018

    A leaky endeavor Considerable amounts of the greenhouse gas methane leak from the U.S. oil and natural gas supply chain. Alvarez et al. reassessed the magnitude of this leakage and found that in 2015, supply chain emissions were ∼60% higher than the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency inventory estimate. They suggest that this discrepancy exists because current inventory methods miss emissions that occur during abnormal operating conditions. The…

  • A Large and Persistent Carbon Sink in the World’s Forests

    Open AccessYude Pan, Richard A Birdsey et al.ARTICLEScience2011

    Net average global annual uptake of atmospheric carbon dioxide by forests was 1.1 petagrams of carbon, roughly one-sixth of fossil fuel emissions.

  • Sharing global CO 2 emission reductions among one billion high emitters

    Open AccessShoibal Chakravarty, Ananth Chikkatur et al.ARTICLEProceedings of the National…2009

    We present a framework for allocating a global carbon reduction target among nations, in which the concept of “common but differentiated responsibilities” refers to the emissions of individuals instead of nations. We use the income distribution of a country to estimate how its fossil fuel CO 2 emissions are distributed among its citizens, from which we build up a global CO 2 distribution. We then propose a simple rule to derive a universal cap on…

  • Beneficial Biofuels—The Food, Energy, and Environment Trilemma

    Open AccessD Tilman, Robert H Socolow et al.ARTICLEScience2009

    Exploiting multiple feedstocks, under new policies and accounting rules, to balance biofuel production, food security, and greenhouse-gas reduction.

  • Stabilization Wedges

    Open AccessStephen W Pacala, S Pacala et al.ARTICLEScience2004

    Humanity already possesses the fundamental scientific, technical, and industrial know-how to solve the carbon and climate problem for the next half-century. A portfolio of technologies now exists to meet the world's energy needs over the next 50 years and limit atmospheric CO 2 to a trajectory that avoids a doubling of the preindustrial concentration. Every element in this portfolio has passed beyond the laboratory bench and demonstration project…