News
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

Mar 7, 2018 Op-Ed in Ricochet (with PhD candidate Daniel Horen Greenford): Good climate policy is incompatible with expanding fossil fuel extraction

Jun 21, 2017 Op-Ed in Policy Options: Some progress toward low-carbon economy, much more needed

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

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).

How do national emissions pledges measure up against the 2 °C carbon budget? Not terribly well (Gignac and Matthews, 2015).

Outdoor skating season has decreased due to warmer winter temperatures in Canada (Damyanov et al., 2012).

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).

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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