News
October 2024 Article in the Conversation: New survey of IPCC authors reveal doubt, and hope, that world will achieve climate targets.
February 2024 Article in the Conversation: How global warming is reshaping winter life in Canada
December 2023 Article in the Conversation: COP28: The scientific basis for a rapid fossil fuel phase out
September 2023 Article in the Conversation: Temporary carbon storage in forest has climate value - but we need to get the accounting right.
June 2022 Article in the Canadian Accountant - Most Companies buying renewable energy certificates aren't actually reducing emissions
December 2021 Article in the Conversation: Climate clock reset shows the world is one year closer to 1.5 C warming threshold
January 2021 Article in the Conversation: New research suggests 1.5C climate target will be out of reach without greener COVID-19 recovery plans
The Climate Clock
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Tracking the time remaining until we reach 1.5 and 2 °C of global warming. The climate clock is a collaboration between Concordia University and the Human Impact Lab. For more info: climateclock.net |
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Research Highlights
What is the total percentage of dense forest cover loss estimated over the 60-year period (1990-2050), and what does this imply for the region's ecological health? (Yuh et al, 2024).
Do renewable energy certificates threaten progress towards meeting corporate science-based targets? (Bjørn et al, 2022)
What do IPCC author think about the likelihood of different climate outcomes? (Wynes et al, 2024)
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Climate debts and credits: who has over- or under-contributed to global warming? (Matthews, 2016)
Will increased fire frequency be a positive or negative feedback to global warming? Like many things, it depends ... (Landry et al, 2015).
What countries have the most committed CO2 emissions from current energy infrastructure?(Davis et al 2010).
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Which non-human primate species will be the most vulnerable to the impacts of climate change? (Graham et al 2016).
National contributions to observed global warming; country area scaled by the total national contribution (Matthews et al, 2014).
Global temperature change is proportional to cumulative CO2 emissions (Matthews et al, 2009).
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