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Climate interactive: the C‐ROADS climate policy model
Author(s) -
Sterman John,
Fiddaman Thomas,
Franck Travis,
Jones Andrew,
McCauley Stephanie,
Rice Philip,
Sawin Elizabeth,
Siegel Lori
Publication year - 2012
Publication title -
system dynamics review
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.491
H-Index - 57
eISSN - 1099-1727
pISSN - 0883-7066
DOI - 10.1002/sdr.1474
Subject(s) - climate model , climate change , computer science , operations research , library science , mathematics , geology , oceanography
In 1992 the nations of the world created the United Nations Framework Convention onClimate Change (UNFCCC) to negotiate binding agreements to address the risks of climatechange. Nearly every nation on Earth committed to limiting global greenhouse gas (GHG)emissions to prevent “dangerous anthropogenic interference in the climate system,” [superscript 1]which is generally accepted to mean limiting the increase in mean global surface temperature to2 degrees C above pre-industrial levels.[superscript 2] High hopes were dashed at the 2009 Copenhagen climateconference when face-to-face negotiations among heads of state collapsed. Instead, nations were encouraged to make voluntary pledges to reduce their emissions. Those pledgescurrently fall significantly short of what is needed (UNEP, 2010) while GHG emissions haverisen to record levels despite the great recession that began in 2008