High Stakes: Designing emissions pathways to reduce the risk of dangerous climate change

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This report, commissioned by ippr, provides fresh quantitative analysis of the relationships between global greenhouse gas emissions trajectories, atmospheric greenhouse gas concentrations, and temperature changes.

This report, commissioned by ippr, will outline precisely how large and how fast cuts in greenhouse gas emissions will need to be if we are to have a high chance of avoiding dangerous climate change. It features fresh quantitative analysis of the relationships between global greenhouse gas emissions trajectories, atmospheric greenhouse gas concentrations, and temperature changes.

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