• DOI:10.1007/978-3-030-05843-2
• Corpus ID: 198078901

Achieving the Paris Climate Agreement Goals

@inproceedings{Teske2019AchievingTP,
  title={Achieving the Paris Climate Agreement Goals},
  author={Sven Teske},
  year={2019}
}

• Sven Teske
• Published 24 January 2019
• Environmental Science

An overview of the motivations behind the writing of this book, the scientific background and context of the research. Brief outline of all methodologies used, followed by assumptions and the storyline of each scenario. Presentation of main results of the renewable energy resources assessment, transport scenario, longterm energy pathway, the power sector analysis, employment analysis and an assessment for required metals for renewable energy and storage technologies. Key results of non-energy greenhouse mitigation scenarios which are developed in support of the energy scenario in order to achieve the 1.5 °C target. Concluding remarks and policy recommendations including graphs and tables. Introduction The Paris Climate Agreement aims to hold global warming to well below 2 degrees Celsius (°C) and to “pursue efforts” to limit it to 1.5 °C. To accomplish this, countries have submitted Intended Nationally Determined Contributions (INDCs) outlining their post-2020 climate actions (Rogelj 2016). This research aimed to develop practical pathways to achieve the Paris climate goals based on a detailed bottom-up examination of the potential of the energy sector, in order to avoid reliance on net negative emissions later on. The study described in this book focuses on the ways in which humans produce energy, because energy-related carbon dioxide (CO2) emissions are the main drivers of climate change. The analysis also considers the development pathways for nonenergyrelated emissions and mitigation measures for them because it is essential to address their contributions if we are to achieve the Paris climate change targets. State of Research—Climate Beyond reasonable doubt, climate change over the last 250 years has been driven by anthropogenic activities. In fact, the humaninduced release of greenhouse gas emissions into the atmosphere warms the planet even more than is currently observed as climate change, but some of that greenhousegasinduced warming is masked by the effect of aerosol emissions.