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

Creutzig, F., Hilaire, J., Nemet, G., Müller-Hansen, F., Minx, J. , 2023

Technological innovation enables low cost climate change mitigation

Energy Research & Social Science
22.09.2023

Renforth, P., Bellamy, R., Beerling, D., Boettcher, M., Bonalumi, D., Brandao, M., Fridahl, M., Fuss, S., Hansson, A., Heyward, C., Kolosz, B., Lamers, P., McLaren, D., Pomi, R., Sanchez, D.L., Shayegh, S., Sick, V., Van der Spek, M., Vishal, V., Wilcox, J. , 2023

Specialty grand challenge: renaming our section to “Carbon Dioxide Removal”

Frontiers in Climate
18.09.2023

Segovia-Martin, J., Creutzig, F., Winters, J. , 2023

Efficiency traps beyond the climate crisis: exploration-exploitation trade-offs and rebound effects

Philosophical Transactions B
18.09.2023