An essay on global carbon budget approaches----Are we ready to deal with global climate changes now?

Abstract

In this paper, a simple analysis is conducted for the purpose of addressing a simple but fundamental question, i.e., does the world have the capability in sciences, economics and governance to deal with the global climate change today and what should we do? By pointing out that although understanding of multidimensionality and nonlinearity of global changes from both natural and social sciences has been advanced significantly, it is extremely difficult, if not impossible, to find a single solution for global climate change because of the multi-dimensionality of social components and the nonlinearity of natural elements inherent in the global climate systems.

Keywords

global climate change / carbon budget / international negotiation

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Acknowledgements

This research was partly supported by International Cooperation Project (No. 2010DFB20880) “Integrated Risk Governance–Models and Modeling” funded by Ministry of Science and Technology of China.

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