Clean cooking access may stall under slow post-pandemic recovery and ambitious climate mitigation without explicit focus

Policy trade-offs between climate mitigation and clean cook-stove access in South Asia

Policy trade - o s between climate mitigation and clean cook - stove access in South Asia

Household air pollution from traditional cook stoves presents a greater health hazard than any other environmental factor. Despite government e orts to support clean-burning cooking fuels, over 700 million people in South Asia could still rely on traditional stoves in 2030. This number could rise if climate change mitigation e orts increase energy costs. Here we quantify the costs of support po...

Climate Change Mitigation May Well End

This Submission sets out a more rational basis for setting targets for greenhouse gas emission reductions than that of all current proposals, and shows that such targets do not need to be as severe as commonly supposed. It then queries the apparently already firm decision of the Garnaut Review to adopt the HowardShergold preference for an emissions trading scheme (ETS) as the method of choice f...

Can carbon cycle geoengineering be a useful complement to ambitious climate mitigation ?

Intentional climate modification at a global scale – geoengineering – would probably be very risky, and perhaps even dangerous. Many negative consequences of geoengineering have already been predicted [1,2], and it is very likely that there will be unforeseen environmental consequences that may only emerge after geoengineering is enacted [3]. Indeed, I have argued previously that the net impact...

Exploring the Feasibility Frontier for Ambitious Climate Mitigation Targets in Germany