The decrease of fossil emission is too slow
IIASA (1) criticise the assumption of international policymaker that heavy implementation of negative emission technology later can offset the slow decrease of fossil fuel emission today. IIASA proposes that the policymaker “…need a broader range of scenarios as they seek to limit climate change to below 2°C above the pre-industrial level .”
(1) IIASA – International Institute for Applied Systems Analysis, www.iiasa.ac.at is located in Laxenburg near Vienna, Austria. IIASA uses systems analysis to research the critical issues of environmental, economic and technological change we face today.
(2) Thinking outside the box on climate mitigation, Option Summer 2018, page 5.
Further reading: Obersteiner M, Bednar J, Wagner F, Gasser T, Ciais P, Forsell
N, Havlik P, Valin H, et al. (2018), How to spend a dwindling greenhouse gas budget.Nature Climate [pure.iiasa.ac.at/15031]
Roland Leithenmayr VFV
NGO Committee on Sustainable Development Vienna 