A history of the global carbon budget
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 12929707 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Bård Lahn (0000-0001-9161-9455, University of Oslo, corresponding author) |
| Year | 2020 |
| Volume | 11 |
| Issue | 3 |
| Publication date | 2020-01-15 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Wiley Interdisciplinary Reviews Climate Change (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 1757-7780 • E-ISSN: 1757-7799 |
| Publisher | Wiley (PUBLISHER • GB) |
| DOI | 10.1002/wcc.636 |
| OpenAlex | W2999221397 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 17 |
| References cited | 45 |
The idea of a global “carbon budget”—the cumulative amount of “allowable” carbon emissions to meet a global temperature target—has become established as a central concept in climate science and policy. As a concept explicitly aimed at mediating between scientific knowledge and policymaking, the carbon budget has always been actively positioned in relation to ongoing policy debates, but the specific forms this concept has taken have varied. This article reviews key contributions to the carbon budget literature from the 1980s until today, in order to identify how scientists have positioned the concept between the worlds of science and policy. Three main shifts are identified in how the policy relevance of the carbon budget is envisaged in the scientific literature. The shifts can be related in part to developments in climate science, and in part to changes in international climate policy. The history of the carbon budget thus illustrates how science and policy interacts to shape dominant understandings of how climate change can be known and governed. This article is categorized under: Climate, History, Society, Culture > Ideas and Knowledge
Carbon fibers · Climate change · Climate policy · Climate science · Economics · Order (exchange · Political science · Relation (database · Relevance (law · Science policy · Atmospheric and Environmental Gas Dynamics · Climate Change and Geoengineering · Climate Change Policy and Economics · Computer Science · Law · Public Administration · Ecology
Benchmarking climate futures
Climate Imagineering
The possible institutionalisation of the carbon removal budget concept across the UNFCCC, UNCBD, and corporate net-zero strategies
Assessing the size and uncertainty of remaining carbon budgets
Reframing the climate debate
Role of non-motorized transportation and buses in meeting climate targets of urban regions
Managing plastic pollution in the Arctic ocean
Acting out the not-yet
The global multi-hub conference
A history of the 1.5°C target
Staging science
Early warnings and emerging accountability
Changing climate change
Carbon offsets are incompatible with the Paris Agreement
UNFCCC must confront the political economy of net-negative emissions
Thinking structures of climate delay
The great dispersal
Climate Change 2014: Mitigation of Climate Change
Global Carbon Budget 2018
Stabilizing climate requires near‐zero emissions
Reframing the climate change challenge in light of post-2000 emission trends
Greenhouse-gas emission targets for limiting global warming to 2 °C
Emission budgets and pathways consistent with limiting warming to 1.5 °C
Moving beyond the linear model of expertise? IPCC and the test of adaptation
The proportionality of global warming to cumulative carbon emissions
Warming caused by cumulative carbon emissions towards the trillionth tonne
The geographical distribution of fossil fuels unused when limiting global warming to 2 °C
Estimating and tracking the remaining carbon budget for stringent climate targets
Avoiding dangerous climate change
States of Knowledge
“Gaps” in Climate Change Knowledge
Allocating a 2 °C cumulative carbon budget to countries
Measuring a fair and ambitious climate agreement using cumulative emissions
Focus on cumulative emissions, global carbon budgets and the implications for climate mitigation targets
Energy policy in the greenhouse
One world or two? Science–policy interactions in the climate field
History of the 2 ° C climate target
The politics of climate change in the UK
(Anti)-boundary work in global environmental change research and assessment
Discursive stability meets climate instability
From Carbon Markets to Carbon Morality
Epistemic geographies of climate change
The IPCC and the new map of science and politics
Boundary-Work and the Demarcation of Science from Non-Science
| Unique citing works | 17 |
|---|---|
| Citations per year | 2,83 |
| Citation span | 2020 - 2026 (7) |
| Citation velocity | current |
| Highly cited | No |
| Citation types | Neutral: 15 |