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    • The creation of an ecovillage: Negotiating boundaries and identities in a Norwegian sustainable valley 

      Westskog, Hege; Winther, Tanja; Aasen, Marianne (Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2018)

    • The development and deployment of low-carbon energy technologies: The role of economic interests and cultural worldviews on public support 

      Cherry, Todd; Garcia, Jorge H; Kallbekken, Steffen; Torvanger, Asbjørn (Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2014)
      Large-scale deployment of low-carbon energy technologies is crucial to mitigating climate change, and public support is an important barrier to policies and projects that facilitate deployment. This paper provides insights ...

    • The effects of energy efficiency improvement in China with global interaction 

      Glomsrød, Solveig; Wei, Taoyuan (Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2016)
      China has pledged to reduce its carbon intensity defined as carbon dioxide emissions per unit of GDP by 40–45% by 2020 and by 60–65% by 2030 compared to the 2005 level. To fulfill the pledges, China’s government has made ...

    • The Geoengineering Model Intercomparison Project Phase 6 (GeoMIP6): Simulation design and preliminary results 

      Kravitz, Ben; Robock, Alan; Tilmes, Simone; Boucher, Olivier; English, Jason. M.; Irvine, Peter J.; Jones, Andy; Lawrence, Mark G.; MacCracken, Michael; Muri, Helene; Moore, John C.; Niemeier, Ulrike; Phipps, Steven J.; Sillmann, Jana; Storelvmo, Trude; Wang, Hailong; Watanabe, Shingo (Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2015)
      We present a suite of new climate model experiment designs for the Geoengineering Model Intercomparison Project (GeoMIP). This set of experiments, named GeoMIP6 (to be consistent with the Coupled Model Intercomparison ...

    • The Geoengineering Model Intercomparison Project Phase 6 (GeoMIP6): Simulation design and preliminary results 

      Kravitz, Ben; Robock, Alan; Tilmes, Simone; Boucher, Olivier; English, Jason. M.; Irvine, Peter J.; Jones, Andy; Lawrence, Mark G.; MacCracken, Michael; Muri, Helene; Moore, John C.; Niemeier, Ulrike; Phipps, Steven J.; Sillmann, Jana; Storelvmo, Trude; Wang, Hailong; Watanabe, Shingo (Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2015)
      We present a suite of new climate model experiment designs for the Geoengineering Model Intercomparison Project (GeoMIP). This set of experiments, named GeoMIP6 (to be consistent with the Coupled Model Intercomparison ...

    • The Geoengineering Model Intercomparison Project Phase 6 (GeoMIP6): Simulation design and preliminary results 

      Kravitz, Ben; Robock, Alan; Tilmes, Simone; Boucher, Olivier; English, Jason. M.; Irvine, Peter J.; Jones, Andy; Lawrence, Mark G.; MacCracken, Michael; Muri, Helene; Moore, John C.; Niemeier, Ulrike; Phipps, Steven J.; Sillmann, Jana; Storelvmo, Trude; Wang, Hailong; Watanabe, Shingo (Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2015)
      We present a suite of new climate model experiment designs for the Geoengineering Model Intercomparison Project (GeoMIP). This set of experiments, named GeoMIP6 (to be consistent with the Coupled Model Intercomparison ...

    • The Hidden Hazard of Household Air Pollution in Rural China 

      Aunan, Kristin; Hansen, Mette Halskov; Liu, Zhaohui; Wang, Shuxiao (Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2019)
      Air pollution in Chinese cities has become a major topic of public debate and political concern. At the same time, few rural areas are subjected to measurements of ambient air quality, and policy documents and media rarely ...

    • The Imperatives of Sustainable Development 

      Holden, Erling; Linnerud, Kristin; Banister, David (Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2017)
      The United Nations sustainable development goals are under fire. By attempting to cover all that is good and desirable in society, these targets have ended up as vague and meaningless. We suggest a model for sustainable ...

    • The Imperatives of Sustainable Development 

      Holden, Erling; Linnerud, Kristin; Banister, David (Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2017)
      The United Nations sustainable development goals are under fire. By attempting to cover all that is good and desirable in society, these targets have ended up as vague and meaningless. We suggest a model for sustainable ...

    • The Imperatives of Sustainable Development: Needs, Justice, Limits 

      Holden, Erling; Linnerud, Kristin; Banister, David; Schwanitz, Valeria Jana; Wierling, August Hubert (Book, 2017)
      For more information on the book, its content and the authors, see https://www.routledge.com/guilfordpressbooks/details/9781138714267?books/details/9781138714267/

    • The influence of atmospheric blocking on extreme winter minimum temperatures in North America 

      Whan, Kirien; Zwiers, Francis W.; Sillmann, Jana (Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2016)
      Regional climate models (RCMs) are the primary source of high-resolution climate projections, and it is of crucial importance to evaluate their ability to simulate extreme events under current climate conditions. Many ...

    • The Paris Agreement: Short-term and Long-term Effectiveness 

      Bang, Guri; Hovi, Jon; Skodvin, Tora (Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2016)
      The 2015 Paris Agreement was widely greeted with enthusiasm. We assess the short-term and long-term potential effectiveness of Paris. Concerning short-term effectiveness, we contend that while Paris scores high on ...

    • The Paris Agreement: Short-term and Long-term Effectiveness 

      Bang, Guri; Hovi, Jon; Skodvin, Tora (Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2016)
      The 2015 Paris Agreement was widely greeted with enthusiasm. We assess the short-term and long-term potential effectiveness of Paris. Concerning short-term effectiveness, we contend that while Paris scores high on ...

    • The political economy of technology support: Making decisions about carbon capture and storage and low carbon energy technologies 

      Torvanger, Asbjørn; Meadowcroft, J (Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2011)
      This article reviews the political economy of government choice around technology support for the development and deployment of low carbon emission energy technologies, such as Carbon Capture and Storage (CCS). It is ...

    • The political feasibility of potent enforcement in a post-Kyoto climate agreement 

      Aakre, Stine (Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2014)
      To be effective, a post-Kyoto climate agreement must secure significant greenhouse gas emissions reductions by all (key) emitters. Potent participation and compliance enforcement will be required to make it in every key ...

    • The regional temperature implications of strong air quality measures 

      Aamaas, Borgar; Berntsen, Terje Koren; Samset, Bjørn Hallvard (Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2019)

    • The socioeconomic drivers of China's primary PM_2.5 emissions 

      Guan, D; Su, X; Zhang, Q; Peters, Glen Philip; Liu, Z; Lei, Y; He, K (Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2014)
      Primary PM2.5 emissions contributed significantly to poor air quality in China. We present an interdisciplinary study to measure the magnitudes of socioeconomic factors in driving primary PM2.5 emission changes in China ...

    • The trouble with negative emissions 

      Anderson, K; Peters, Glen Philip (Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2016)
      n December 2015, member states of the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC) adopted the Paris Agreement, which aims to hold the increase in the global average temperature to below 2°C and to pursue ...

    • The vulnerability and resilience of smallholder-inclusive agricultural investments in Tanzania 

      West, Jennifer Joy; Haug, Ruth (Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2017)
      This paper compares and contrasts two cases of smallholderinclusive agricultural investment in Tanzania and investigates the factors that shape their vulnerability and resilience to risks and uncertainties that influence ...

    • Three Decades of Climate Mitigation: Why Haven't We Bent the Global Emissions Curve? 

      Stoddard, Isak; Anderson, Kevin; Capstick, Stuart; Carton, Wim; Depledge, Joanna; Facer, Keri; Gough, Clair; Hache, Frederic; Hoolohan, Claire; Hultman, Martin; Hällström, Niclas; Kartha, Sivan; Klinsky, Sonja; Kuchler, Magdalena; Lövbrand, Eva; Nasiritousi, Naghmeh; Newell, Peter; Peters, Glen Philip; Sokona, Youba; Stirling, Andy; Stilwell, Matthew; Spash, Clive L.; Williams, Mariama (Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2021)
      Despite three decades of political efforts and a wealth of research on the causes and catastrophic impacts of climate change, global carbon dioxide emissions have continued to rise and are 60% higher today than they were ...