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Climate Scenarios, Impacts and Modelling

Improving our understanding of the science of climate change, its impacts on human and environmental systems, and how best to respond to the challenge of climate mitigation.

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News

December 2921 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

Dec 5, 2018
Article in The Conversation:  The Climate Clock: Counting down to 1.5℃

November 13, 2018, Op-Ed in Gazette (with Catherine Potvin): Yes, there is something you can do to fight climate change​

Apr 16, 2018 Article in The Conversation (with PhD candidate Daniel Horen Greenford): Canada's next budget update should include carbon

Mar 27, 2018 Op-Ed in Gazette by PhD candidate Daniel Horen Greenford (with Cory Lesk, Columbia University): Steven Pinker's optimism on climate change is misplaced



The Climate Clock


​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

Research Highlights

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What regions warm the most due to CO2 emissions? See our new analysis of the regional climate response to cumulative carbon emissions (Leduc et al, 2016).
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How do national emissions pledges measure up against the 2 °C carbon budget? Not terribly well (Gignac and Matthews, 2015).
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Outdoor skating season has decreased due to warmer winter temperatures in Canada (Damyanov et al., 2012).
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Climate debts and credits: who has over- or under-contributed to global warming? (Matthews, 2016)
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Will increased fire frequency be a positive or negative feedback to global warming? Like many things, it depends ... (Landry et al, 2015).
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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).
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National contributions to observed global warming; country area scaled by the total national contribution (Matthews et al, 2014).
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Global temperature change is proportional to cumulative CO2 emissions (Matthews et al, 2009).
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