Abstract The 2 °C and 1.5 temperature targets of the Paris Agreement can be interpreted as never to exceeded, or end-of-century targets. Recent literature proposes move away from latter, in favour avoiding a overshoot associated net negative emissions. To inform this discussion, we investigate under which conditions an is economically attractive. We show that some form attractive wide range ass...

Abstract Using time series data for the period 1959–2015, our empirical analysis examines simultaneous effects of individual components global carbon budget on temperature. Specifically, we explore possible emissions caused by fossil fuel combustion, cement production, land-use change emissions, and sinks (here in terms land sink ocean sink) climate change. The inclusion allows us to look at co...

In order to better understand the budget of carbon dioxide in the Earth's atmosphere it is necessary to develop a global high precision understanding of the carbon dioxide column. To uncover the `missing sink" that is responsible for the large discrepancies in the budget as we presently understand it, calculation has indicated that measurement accuracy of 1 ppm is necessary. Because typical col...