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Page 1: Climate change 2014 - Mitigation of climate change

Working Group III contribution to the IPCC Fifth Assessment Report

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Climate change is a globalcommons problem.

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1 Summary for Policymakers

1 Technical Summary

16 Chapters

235 Authors

900 Reviewers

More than 2000 pages

Close to 10,000 references

More than 38,000 comments

IPCC reports are the result of extensive work of many scientists from around the world.

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Chapter Structure

• Framing Chapters1. Introduction2. Risk and Uncertainty3. Social, Economic, and Ethical Concepts4. Sustainable Development and Equity

• Bridging Chapters5. Drivers, Trends, and Mitigation (Historical -jcr)6. Assessing Transformation Pathways (scenarios)

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Chapter Structure - 2• Thematic Chapters

7. Energy Systems8. Transport9. Buildings 10. Industry11. Agriculture, Forestry & Other Land Uses12. Human Settlements, Infrastructure, Spatial Planning

• Policies and Financing13. International Cooperation: Agreements and Instruments14. Regional Development and Cooperation15. National and Sub-National Policies and Institutions16. Cross-cutting Investment and Finance Issues

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GHG emissions growth between 2000 and 2010 has been larger than in the previous three decades.

Based on Figure 1.3

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About half of cumulative anthropogenic CO2 emissions between 1750 and 2010 have occurred in the last 40 years.

Based on Figure 5.3

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Regional patterns of GHG emissions are shifting along with changes in the world economy.

Based on Figure 1.6

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What happens to a flow diagram when everything is connected to everything else? (and we wanted the wheels to spin)

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Role of trade in emissions ACCOUNTING

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GHG emissions rise with growth in GDP and population; long-standing trend of decarbonisation of energy reversed.

Based on Figure 1.7

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Without additional mitigation, global mean surface temperature is projected to increase by 3.7 to 4.8°C over the 21st century.

Based on WGII AR5 Figure 19.4

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Stabilization of atmospheric concentrations requires moving away from the baseline – regardless of the mitigation goal.

~3°C

Based on Figure 6.7

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Mitigation involves substantial upscaling of low-carbon energy.

Based on Figure 7.16

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Delaying mitigation is estimated to increase the difficulty and narrow the options for limiting warming to 2°C.

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Baseline scenarios suggest rising GHG emissions in all sectors, except for CO2 emissions in the land use sector.‐

Based on Figure TS.17

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Reducing energy demand through efficiency enhancements and behavioural changes are a key mitigation strategy.

Based on Figure 6.37

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There has been a considerable increase in national and sub-national mitigation policies since AR4.

Based on Figures 15.1 and 13.3

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Climate change mitigation is a global commons problem that requires international cooperation across scales.

Based on Figure 13.1

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Searched for “ocean”, “marine”, “ and coastalZero hits in Chapters 1,2,3, 9, 10, 12, 14 ,15, 16

Shipping - 9 hits in chapters 5 and 8, and Annexes on methods and costsBio-energy and food source – 3 hits in chapter 11

Fertilization – 14 hits in chapters 4, 6, and 13 and annex on methods

Acidification- 18 hits in chapters 4, 6, 7, and 13 and annex on methods

Carbon capture and Storage (other) – 6 hits in chapters 6, 7 and methods0

Energy Source – 10 hits in chapters 6, and 7 and annex on methods

Where is the ocean?

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Problem is reducing emissions – which to maintain our lifestyle are still growing.

Technology AND behaviour hold the solution (if it exists)

Ocean Fertilization as CCS NOT the answer

Not giving high credibility to coastal wind, tidal or wave energy. Or to coastal CCS in other ways. SHOULD THEY?

SO - the future is bleak and we are running out of time….

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