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Consumption- Based Carbon Accounting: Does It Have a Future?

November 2016
Stavros Afionis, Marco Sakai, Kate Scott, John Barrett, Andy Gouldson
WIREs Climate Change
This article provides an account of the logic behind attributing responsibility for emissions on the basis of consumption instead of production, discusses the counterarguments, and presents implementation possibilities. Read More →

Attribution of Net Carbon Change by Disturbance Type Across Forest Lands of the Conterminous United States

November 2016
N.L. Harris, S.C. Hagen, S.S. Saatchi, T.R.H. Pearson, C.W. Woodall, G.M. Domke, B.H. Braswell, B.F. Walters, S. Brown, W. Salas, A. Fore, Y. Yu
Carbon Balance and Management
This study provides analysis of the net carbon change across forest lands in the conterminous U.S. between 2006 and 2010, attributing changes to both natural and anthropogenic disturbances. Read More →

Reducing emissions from agriculture to meet the 2 °C target

May 2016
Eva Wollenberg Meryl Richards Pete Smith Petr Havlík Michael Obersteiner Francesco N. Tubiello Martin Herold Pierre Gerber Sarah Carter Andrew Reisinger Detlef P. van Vuuren Amy Dickie Henry Neufeldt Björn O. Sander Reiner Wassmann Rolf Sommer James E. Amonette Alessandra Falcucci Mario Herrero Carolyn Opio Rosa Maria Roman‐Cuesta Elke Stehfest Henk Westhoek Ivan Ortiz‐Monasterio Tek Sapkota Mariana C. Rufino Philip K. Thornton Louis Verchot Paul C. West Jean‐François Soussana Tobias Baedeker Marc Sadler Sonja Vermeulen Bruce M. Campbell
Global Change Biology
This study identifies a preliminary global target for reducing emissions from agriculture of ~1 GtCO2e yr−1 by 2030 to limit warming in 2100 to 2 °C above pre‐industrial levels. Read More →

Greenhouse gas mitigation potentials in the livestock sector

March 2016
Mario Herrero, Benjamin Henderson, Petr Havlík, Philip K. Thornton, Richard T. Conant, Pete Smith, Stefan Wirsenius, Alexander N. Hristov, Pierre Gerber, Margaret Gill, Klaus Butterbach-Bahl, Hugo Valin, Tara Garnett & Elke Stehfest
Nature Climate Change
This study estimated that between 1995 and 2005, the livestock sector was responsible for greenhouse gas emissions of 5.6–7.5 GtCO2e yr−1.Read More →

The Contribution of China’s Emissions to Global Climate Forcing

March 2016
Bengang Li, Thomas Gasser, Philippe Ciais, Shilong Piao, Shu Tao, Yves Balkanski, Didier Hauglustaine, Juan-Pablo Boisier, Zhuo Chen, Mengtian Huang, Laurent Zhaoxin Li, Yue Li, Hongyan Liu, Junfeng Liu, Shushi Peng, Zehao Shen, Zhenzhong Sun, Rong Wang, Tao Wang, Guodong Yin, Yi Yin, Hui Zeng, Zhenzhong Zeng, Feng Zhou
Nature
This study quantifies China’s present-day contribution to global radiative forcing and finds that that China contributes 10% ± 4% of the current global radiative forcing.Read More →

The Climate Responsibilities of Industrial Carbon Producers

September 2015
Peter C. Frumhoff, Richard Heede, and Naomi Oreskes
Climatic Change
This paper considers the distinctive responsibilities of the major investor-owned producers of fossil fuels, assessing the actions these companies took and could have taken to act upon the scientific evidence of climate change. Read More →