Climate Attribution

Wildfire and degradation accelerate northern peatland carbon release

April 2023
S. Wilkinson, R. Andersen, P. Moore, S. Davidson, and J. Waddington
Nature Climate Change
This peer-reviewed study uses datasets from natural, degraded, and restored northern peatlands to show that increased wildfire incidence caused by human activity reduces the carbon sink provided by peatlands.Read More →

Seasonal increase of methane emissions linked to warming in Siberian tundra

October 2022
Norman Rößger, Torsten Sachs, Christian Wille, Julia Boike, Lars Kutzbach
Nature Climate Change
This paper assesses methane emissions from the North Siberian Lena River Delta, providing the first observational evidence of an increasing trend of early summer methane emissions from tundra wetlands linked to atmospheric warming.Read More →

The Production Gap: Governments’ planned fossil fuel production remains dangerously out of sync with Paris Agreement limits

October 2021
Stockholm Environment Institute, UN Environmental Program, International Institute for Sustainable Development, ODI, E3G
Stockholm Environment Institute, UN Environmental Program, International Institute for Sustainable Development, ODI, E3G
This report tracks the discrepancy between governments’ planned fossil fuel production and global levels consistent with limiting warming to 1.5°C or 2°C.Read More →

Distributive Fairness: A Mutual Recognition Approach

August 2015
Arild Underdal, Taoyuan Wei
Environmental Science and Policy
This article "translates" the UNFCCC principles of responsibilities and capabilities into 15 allocation schemes and explores the implications of these schemes for the mitigation obligations and costs of seven potentially pivotal actors. Read More →