The implications of COP21 for our future climate

Corinne Le Quéré

doi:10.1186/s40985-016-0038-z

The implications of COP21 for our future climate

Corinne Le Quéré

Research output: Contribution to journal › Comment/debate › peer-review

2 Citations (Scopus)

9 Downloads (Pure)

Abstract

Rising CO2 in the atmosphere is the main cause of anthropogenic climate change, and the data shows a clear increase in global temperature of about 1 °C since pre-industrial levels. Changes in climate extremes are also occurring, with observed increases in the frequency of heat waves, in intense precipitation (rainfall and snowfall) in many places, and in sea level and storm surges. A changing climate with rising extremes has associated risks for food production and other health-related impacts. In order to limit climate change well below 2 °C, our carbon emissions must rapidly follow a decreasing trajectory to near zero.

Original language	English
Article number	29
Journal	Public Health Reviews
Volume	37
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1186/s40985-016-0038-z
Publication status	Published - 5 Dec 2016

Keywords

Climate change
CO2 emissions
Global warming
COP21
Health

UN SDGs

This output contributes to the following UN Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs)

Access to Document

10.1186/s40985-016-0038-zLicence: CC BY

Published manuscript
© The Author(s). 2016 Open Access This article is distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/), which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided you give appropriate credit to the original author(s) and the source, provide a link to the Creative Commons license, and indicate if changes were made. The Creative Commons Public Domain Dedication waiver (http://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/zero/1.0/) applies to the data made available in this article, unless otherwise stated.
Final published version, 314 KBLicence: CC BY

http://publichealthreviews.biomedcentral.com/articles/10.1186/s40985-016-0038-zLicence: CC BY

Cite this

@article{6c6c11e808cd403abe03836101e806ba,

title = "The implications of COP21 for our future climate",

abstract = "Rising CO2 in the atmosphere is the main cause of anthropogenic climate change, and the data shows a clear increase in global temperature of about 1 °C since pre-industrial levels. Changes in climate extremes are also occurring, with observed increases in the frequency of heat waves, in intense precipitation (rainfall and snowfall) in many places, and in sea level and storm surges. A changing climate with rising extremes has associated risks for food production and other health-related impacts. In order to limit climate change well below 2 °C, our carbon emissions must rapidly follow a decreasing trajectory to near zero.",

keywords = "Climate change, CO2 emissions, Global warming, COP21, Health ",

author = "{Le Qu{\'e}r{\'e}}, Corinne",

note = "{\textcopyright} The Author(s). 2016 Open Access This article is distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/), which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided you give appropriate credit to the original author(s) and the source, provide a link to the Creative Commons license, and indicate if changes were made. The Creative Commons Public Domain Dedication waiver (http://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/zero/1.0/) applies to the data made available in this article, unless otherwise stated.",

year = "2016",

month = dec,

day = "5",

doi = "10.1186/s40985-016-0038-z",

language = "English",

volume = "37",

journal = "Public Health Reviews",

issn = "0301-0422",

publisher = "EHESP Presses",

}

TY - JOUR

T1 - The implications of COP21 for our future climate

AU - Le Quéré, Corinne

N1 - © The Author(s). 2016 Open Access This article is distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/), which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided you give appropriate credit to the original author(s) and the source, provide a link to the Creative Commons license, and indicate if changes were made. The Creative Commons Public Domain Dedication waiver (http://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/zero/1.0/) applies to the data made available in this article, unless otherwise stated.

PY - 2016/12/5

Y1 - 2016/12/5

N2 - Rising CO2 in the atmosphere is the main cause of anthropogenic climate change, and the data shows a clear increase in global temperature of about 1 °C since pre-industrial levels. Changes in climate extremes are also occurring, with observed increases in the frequency of heat waves, in intense precipitation (rainfall and snowfall) in many places, and in sea level and storm surges. A changing climate with rising extremes has associated risks for food production and other health-related impacts. In order to limit climate change well below 2 °C, our carbon emissions must rapidly follow a decreasing trajectory to near zero.

AB - Rising CO2 in the atmosphere is the main cause of anthropogenic climate change, and the data shows a clear increase in global temperature of about 1 °C since pre-industrial levels. Changes in climate extremes are also occurring, with observed increases in the frequency of heat waves, in intense precipitation (rainfall and snowfall) in many places, and in sea level and storm surges. A changing climate with rising extremes has associated risks for food production and other health-related impacts. In order to limit climate change well below 2 °C, our carbon emissions must rapidly follow a decreasing trajectory to near zero.

KW - Climate change

KW - CO2 emissions

KW - Global warming

KW - COP21

KW - Health

U2 - 10.1186/s40985-016-0038-z

DO - 10.1186/s40985-016-0038-z

M3 - Comment/debate

VL - 37

JO - Public Health Reviews

JF - Public Health Reviews

SN - 0301-0422

M1 - 29

ER -