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Inside the IPCC 61st Plenary Meeting: Debates and Decisions Shaping Climate Policy

Union of Concerned Scientists

This post was co-authored by UCS Principal Climate Scientist Kristina Dahl. Outline of a Methodology Report on Short-Lived Climate Forcers Since 2006, the IPCC has provided methodologies that governments around the world use to estimate their greenhouse gas emissions.

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Policy News: April 11, 2022

ESA

Capturing carbon is a must. Countries will also have to extract carbon dioxide from the atmosphere to keep global warming in check. The scientists earmarked the years by which the world must reach net-zero emissions of all greenhouse gases. The IPCC said 1.5 degrees required hitting net-zero CO2 by 2050-2055.

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Identifying the Means to an End: The Role of the Social Cost of Carbon

Arnold Porter

The SCC is a metric that seeks to capture all of the costs that emitting a ton of carbon dioxide (or equivalent amounts of other greenhouse gases such as methane) imposes on society by contributing to climate change over the hundreds of years it remains in the atmosphere. N: Missouri v. Biden , Civ. 4:21-cv-00287-SPM (E.D.