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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 →

Dangerous Air: As California burns, America breathes toxic smoke

September 2021
Alison Saldanha, Farida Jhabvala Romero, Caleigh Wells, and Aaron Glantz
KCRW
An analysis of federal satellite imagery by NPR’s California Newsroom and Stanford University’s Environmental Change and Human Outcomes Lab found a startling increase in the number of days people are breathing wildfire smoke.Read More →

Double benefit of limiting global warming for tropical cyclone exposure

September 2021
Tobias Geiger, Johannes Gütschow, David N. Bresch, Kerry Emanuel, and Katja Frieler
Nature Climate Change
This study quantifies country-level population exposure to tropical cyclone winds for different magnitudes of global mean surface temperature increase and future population distributions.Read More →

Intergenerational inequities in exposure to climate extremes

September 2021
Wim Thiery, Stefan Lange, Joeri Rogelj, Carl-Friedrich Schleussner, Lukas Gudmundsson, Sonia I. Seneviratne, Marina Andrijevic, Katja Frieler, Kerry Emanuel, Tobias Geiger, David N. Bresch, Fang Zhao, Sven N. Willner, Matthias Büchner, Jan Volkholz, Nico Bauer, Jinfeng Chang, Philippe Ciais, Marie Dury, Louis François, Manolis Grillakis, Simon N. Gosling, Naota Hanasaki, Thomas Hickler, Veronika Huber, Akihiko Ito, Jonas Jägermeyr, Nikolay Khabarov, Aristeidis Koutroulis, Wenfeng Liu, Wolfgang Lutz, Matthias Mengel, Christoph Müller, Sebastian Ostberg, Christopher P. O. Reyer, Tobias Stacke, Yoshihide Wada
Science
This study estimates that, under current climate pledges, children born in 2020 will experience a two- to sevenfold increase in extreme events, particularly heat waves, compared with people born in 1960.Read More →