Climate policy: Time to act

Emissions must be reduced quickly, and ultimately to zero. This is shown by the "Carbon Clock" of the MCC. It is based on the remaining CO2 budget (in tonnes) quantified by the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change.

Current publications

Lamb, W., Gasser, T., Roman-Cuesta, R.M., Grassi, G., Gidden, M.J., Powis, C.M., Geden, O., Nemet, G., Pratama, Y., Riahi, K., Smith, S.M., Steinhauser, J., Vaughan, N.E., Smith, H.B., Minx, J., 2024

The carbon dioxide removal gap

Nature Climate Change
03.05.2024

Rodriguez Mendez, Q., Fuss, S., Lück, S., Creutzig, F., 2024

Assessing global urban CO2 removal

Nature Cities
02.05.2024