Carl‐Friedrich Schleussner

Biographic Data

ID6569564
NAMECarl‐Friedrich Schleussner
GIVEN NAMESCarl‐Friedrich
FAMILY NAMESchleussner
SIGNATURESCHLEUSSNER C F
AFFILIATIONSClimate Analytics
ORCID0000-0001-8471-848X
VERIFIEDYes
TOTAL WORKS38
TOTAL CITATIONS49
WORKS AS AUTHOR38
WORKS AS EDITOR0
FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR2016
LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR2026
H-INDEX3

  • The implications of overshooting 1.5 °C on Earth system tipping elements—a review

    Open AccessPaul Ritchie, Norman Julius Steinert et al.ARTICLEEnvironmental Research Letters2026

    Due to insufficient emission reductions in recent years, it is increasingly likely that global warming will exceed the 1.5 °C temperature limit in the late 2020s or 2030s. As a result, several Earth system tipping elements could, at least temporarily, have their tipping points surpassed, posing risks of large-scale and profound structural change. Tipping does not always occur immediately upon crossing such a critical threshold. If the length of t…

  • Street green space is relevant but not sufficient for adapting to growing urban heat in world cities

    Open AccessGiacomo Falchetta, Steffen Lohrey et al.ARTICLEEnvironmental Research Letters2026

    Cities face multiple growing climate-related risks. Identifying adaptation strategies and quantifying their effectiveness and limits is hence crucial. Street green space (SGS) receives significant attention in the urban heat adaptation space due to its potential to reduce heat load and provide additional ecosystem benefits. Yet, the majority of existing studies assessing the effectiveness of SGS are either global or very local, and typically rely…

  • Expert retrospective on a decade of the Paris Agreement

    Open AccessCarl‐Friedrich Schleussner, Paula Castro et al.ARTICLENature Climate Change2025

  • High-income groups disproportionately contribute to climate extremes worldwide

    Open AccessSarah Schöngart, Zebedee Nicholls et al.ARTICLENature Climate Change2025

    Climate injustice persists as those least responsible often bear the greatest impacts, both between and within countries. Here we show how GHG emissions from consumption and investments attributable to the wealthiest population groups have disproportionately influenced present-day climate change. We link emissions inequality over the period 1990–2020 to regional climate extremes using an emulator-based framework. We find that two-thirds (one-fift…

  • The evidence gap index

    Open AccessSarah Lück, Max Callaghan et al.ARTICLEClimate and Development2025

    Climate change impacts are already evident and projected to worsen throughout the 21st century, even with mitigation efforts. Systematic mapping is key to organizing scientific evidence and identifying gaps, but current methods lack geographical context in relation to climate impact risk. In this study, we leverage machine learning to scale up systematic mapping and use automatic geolocation to track place-based research. We then enhance conventi…

  • Response to Guerin et al. Comment on ’Mapping the climate risk to urban forests at city scale’

    Open AccessManuel Esperón‐Rodríguez, Rachael V Gallagher et al.ARTICLELandscape and Urban Planning2025

  • Warming of northern peatlands increases the global temperature overshoot challenge

    Open AccessBiqing Zhu, Chunjing Qiu et al.ARTICLEOne Earth2025

  • Mapping the climate risk to urban forests at city scale

    Open AccessManuel Esperón‐Rodríguez, Rachael V Gallagher et al.ARTICLELandscape and Urban Planning2024

    Climate change represents a threat to the performance and persistence of urban forests and the multiple benefits they provide to city dwellers. Here, we use a novel approach to identify species and areas at high risk of climate change using the city of Melbourne, Australia, as a case study. We derive a safety margin, calculated based on climatic tolerance to two extreme climate variables (maximum temperature of the warmest month, MTWM; precipitat…

  • Countries need to provide clarity on the role of carbon dioxide removal in their climate pledges

    Open AccessWilliam F Lamb, Carl‐Friedrich Schleussner et al.ARTICLEEnvironmental Research Letters2024

    Countries need to provide clarity on the role of carbon dioxide removal in their climate pledges, Lamb, William F, Schleussner, Carl-Friedrich, Grassi, Giacomo, Smith, Stephen M, Gidden, Matthew J, Geden, Oliver, Runge-Metzger, Artur, Vaughan, Naomi E, Nemet, Gregory, Johnstone, Injy, Schulte, Ingrid, Minx, Jan C

  • Towards scenario representation of adaptive capacity for global climate change assessments

    Open AccessMarina Andrijevic, Carl‐Friedrich Schleussner et al.ARTICLENature Climate Change2023

  • Uncompensated claims to fair emission space risk putting Paris Agreement goals out of reach

    Open AccessGaurav Ganti, Matthew Gidden et al.ARTICLEEnvironmental Research Letters2023

    Addressing questions of equitable contributions to emission reductions is important to facilitate ambitious global action on climate change within the ambit of the Paris Agreement. Several large developing regions with low historical contributions to global warming have a strong moral claim to a large proportion of the remaining carbon budget (RCB). However, this claim needs to be assessed in a context where the RCB consistent with the long-term …

  • Neglected implications of land-use and land-cover changes on the climate-health nexus

    Open AccessAnton Orlov, Kristin Aunan et al.ARTICLEEnvironmental Research Letters2023

    Climate change can substantially affect temperature-related mortality and morbidity, especially under high green-house gas emission pathways. Achieving the Paris Agreement goals require not only drastic reductions in fossil fuel-based emissions but also land-use and land-cover changes (LULCC), such as reforestation and afforestation. LULCC has been mainly analysed in the context of land-based mitigation and food security. However, growing scienti…

  • Coastal loss and damage for small islands

    Open AccessRosanne Martyr-Koller, Carl‐Friedrich SchleussnerARTICLENature Sustainability2023References: 2

  • Accounting for socioeconomic constraints in sustainable irrigation expansion assessments

    Open AccessNicole van Maanen, Marina Andrijevic et al.ARTICLEEnvironmental Research Letters2022

    Sustainable irrigation expansion over water limited croplands is an important measure to enhance agricultural yields and increase the resilience of crop production to global warming. While existing global assessments of irrigation expansion mainly illustrate the biophysical potential for irrigation, socioeconomic factors such as weak governance or low income, that demonstrably impede the successful implementation of sustainable irrigation, remain…

  • Accounting for local temperature effect substantially alters afforestation patterns

    Open AccessMichael Windisch, Florian Humpenöder et al.ARTICLEEnvironmental Research Letters2022

    Human intervention in forested ecosystems is hoped to perform a fundamental shift within the next decade by reverting current forest loss—a major source of CO 2 emissions—to net forest gain taking up carbon and thus aiding climate change mitigation. The demanded extensive establishment of forests will change the local surface energy fluxes, and with it the local climate, in addition to competing with food and fiber production for land and water. …

  • Intergenerational inequities in exposure to climate extremes

    Open AccessWim Thiery, Stefan Lange et al.ARTICLEScience2021

    Young generations are severely threatened by climate change

  • Machine-learning-based evidence and attribution mapping of 100,000 climate impact studies

    Open AccessMax Callaghan, Carl‐Friedrich Schleussner et al.ARTICLENature Climate Change2021

  • Reply to Comment on ‘Unintentional unfairness when applying new greenhouse gas emissions metrics at country level’

    Open AccessJoeri Rogelj, Carl‐Friedrich SchleussnerARTICLEEnvironmental Research Letters2021

    This is a companion article to 2021 Environ. Res. Lett. 16 068001 \n \nThis is a companion article to 2019 Environ. Res. Lett. 14 114039

  • Pathways of climate resilience over the 21st century

    Open AccessCarl‐Friedrich Schleussner, Peter Pfleiderer et al.ARTICLEEnvironmental Research Letters2021

    The impacts of climate change are affecting human societies today. In parallel, socio-economic development has increased the capacity of countries around the global to adapt to those impacts although substantial challenges remain. Ongoing climate change will continue to result in a pressure to adapt, while socio-economic development could make it easier to do so. Countries’ effectiveness in fostering climate resilience will depend on the pace of …

  • Fair distributions of carbon dioxide removal obligations and implications for effective national net-zero targets

    Open AccessKaylin Lee, Claire Fyson et al.ARTICLEEnvironmental Research Letters2021

    Achieving net-zero emissions at the global level, as required to limit warming to 1.5 °C, means both rapid emissions reductions across all sectors as well as a scaling-up of carbon dioxide removal (CDR). As a growing number of countries bring forward national net-zero targets, the questions of how much CDR each nation holds responsibility for, whether CDR transfers should be possible under the Paris Agreement market mechanisms, and how this might…

  • Loss and damage implications of sea-level rise on Small Island Developing States

    Open AccessRosanne Martyr-Koller, Adelle Thomas et al.ARTICLECurrent Opinion in Environmental…2021Cited by: 4References: 5

    Sea-level rise poses a significant threat to Small Island Developing States (SIDS) due to the concentration of people, assets, and infrastructure in coastal zones. This review assesses literature on key emerging topics in sea level rise including: the lasting impact of near-term mitigation on long-term sea-level rise; new global coastal vertical elevation data and their impact on existing sea-level rise projections; and the interaction of sea-lev…

  • Scenarios science needed in UNFCCC periodic review

    Open AccessCarl‐Friedrich Schleussner, Claire FysonARTICLENature Climate Change2020

  • Fair-share carbon dioxide removal increases major emitter responsibility

    Open AccessClaire Fyson, Susanne Baur et al.ARTICLENature Climate Change2020

  • Uncertainty in carbon budget estimates due to internal climate variability

    Open AccessKatarzyna Tokarska, Vivek K Arora et al.ARTICLEEnvironmental Research Letters2020

    Remaining carbon budget specifies the cap on global cumulative CO2 emissions from the present-day onwards that would be in line with limiting global warming to a specific maximum level. In the context of the Paris Agreement, global warming is usually interpreted as the externally-forced response to anthropogenic activities and emissions, but it excludes the natural fluctuations of the climate system known as internal variability. A remaining carb…

  • From Paris to Makkah

    Open AccessFahad Saeed, Carl‐Friedrich Schleussner et al.ARTICLEEnvironmental Research Letters2020

    The pilgrimages of Muslims to Makkah (Hajj and Umrah) is one of the largest religious gatherings in the world which draws millions of people from around 180 countries each year. Heat stress during summer has led to health impacts including morbidity and mortality in the past, which is likely to worsen due to global warming. Here we investigate the impacts of increasing heat stress during the peak summer months over Makkah at present levels of war…