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Source Attribution

This category encompasses research aimed at identifying the relative contribution of different sectors, activities, and entities to global climate change. It includes research on the respective contributions of national governments and private corporations to increases in global greenhouse gas concentrations (through both emissions and land use changes). It also includes research on the respective obligations of different entities to mitigate their contributions to climate change.

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The need to decelerate fast fashion in a hot climate – A global sustainability perspective on the garment industry

May 2021
Greg Peters, Mengyu Li, Manfred Lenzen
Elsevier
This article aims to provide a robust basis for discussion about the geography, the scale and the temporal trends in the impacts of fast fashion.Read More →

Attribution of production-stage methane emissions to assess spatial variability in the climate intensity of US natural gas consumption

April 2021
Diana Burns, Emily Grubert
Institute of Physics
This article presents first-order estimates of the production-stage methane emissions intensity of natural gas consumed in the United States. Read More →

(Micro)plastic crisis: Un-ignorable contribution to global greenhouse gas emissions and climate change

March 2021
Maocai Shen, Wei Huang, Ming Chen, Biao Song, Guangming Zeng, Yaxin Zhang
Elsevier
An assessment of the plastic industry's contribution to greenhouse gas emissions.Read More →

Assessment of pre-industrial to present-day anthropogenic climate forcing in UKESM1

January 2021
O'Connor, F. M., Abraham, N. L., Dalvi, M., Folberth, G. A., Griffiths, P. T., Hardacre, C., Johnson, B. T., Kahana, R., Keeble, J., Kim, B., Morgenstern, O., Mulcahy, J. P., Richardson, M., Robertson, E., Seo, J., Shim, S., Teixeira, J. C., Turnock, S. T., Williams, J., Wiltshire, A. J., Woodward, S., and Zeng, G
European Geosciences Union
The authors quantify and analyse a wide range of present-day anthropogenic effective radiative forcings with the UK's Earth System Model, UKESM1.Read More →

The global scale, distribution and growth of aviation: Implications for climate change

November 2020
Stefan Gössling, Andreas Humpe
Science Direct
This study discusses the scale, distribution and growth of aviation until 2018, also with a view to consider the climate change implications of a return to volume growthRead More →

COLE – Carbon Online Estimator

October 2020
United States Department of Agriculture
COLE is a program that draws from US Forest Service FIA Data and allows users to generate estimates for forest carbon inventory and carbon growth-and-yield curves within a user-defined region of the continental United States or Alaska. Read More →

Quantifying national responsibility for climate breakdown: an equality-based attribution approach for carbon dioxide emissions in excess of the planetary boundary

September 2020
Jason Hickel
Elsevier
This analysis proposes a novel method for quantifying national responsibility for damages related to climate changeRead More →

The contribution of global aviation to anthropogenic climate forcing for 2000 to 2018

September 2020
D.S. Lee, D.W. Fahey, A. Skowron, M.R. Allen, U. Burkhardt, Q. Chen, S.J. Doherty, S. Freeman, P.M. Forster, J. Fuglestvedt, A. Gettelman, R.R. De León, L.L. Lim, M.T. Lund, R.J. Millar, B. Owen, J.E. Penner, G. Pitari, M.J. Prather, R. Sausen, L.J. Wilcox,
Atmospheric Environment
Global aviation contributes a few percent to anthropogenic radiative forcing. Comprehensive and quantitative calculations of aviation effects are presented.Read More →

Fingerprints of external forcing agents on Sahel rainfall: aerosols, greenhouse gases, and model-observation discrepancies

July 2020
Kate Marvel, Michela Biasutti and Céline Bonfils
IOP Publishing Ltd
Using multiple characteristics of Sahel precipitation, the study constructs a multivariate fingerprint that allows to distinguish between the model-predicted responses to greenhouse gases and anthropogenic aerosols.Read More →

The effects of anthropogenic and volcanic aerosols and greenhouse gases on twentieth century Sahel precipitation

July 2020
Rebecca Jean Herman, Alessandra Giannini, Michela Biasutti and Yochanan Kushnir
Scientific Reports
This study simulations highlight the importance of anthropogenic and volcanic aerosols over GHG in generating forced Sahel rainfall variability in models.Read More →

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