Jiesper Pedersen

University of Lisbon | UL · Faculty of Science

Long-term global emission scenarios enable the analysis of future climate change, impacts, and response strategies by providing insight into possible future developments and linking these different climate research elements. Such scenarios play a crucial role in the climate change literature informing the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change’s...

Global greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions have continued to grow persistently since 1750. The United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC) entered into force in 1994 to stabilize GHG emissions. Since then, the increasingly harmful impacts of global climate change and repeated scientific warnings about future risks have not been enough...

Emission scenarios represent a backbone in future climate change analyzes1–3, informing policy responses and designs4–8. Despite increasing scientific publications and improved scenario quality9, this has not been translated into sufficient policy actions10,11. Finalizing the 6th assessment cycle of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IP...

In the beginning of 2020, it looked like serious climate action was finally going to take place after decades of procrastination, but we are now inevitably leaving the transformation path. Abruptly (and remarkably), the coronavirus outbreak silenced ongoing efforts to protect climate, while also partly bringing carbon emissions to a halt. A global...

Long-term emissions scenarios have served as the primary basis for assessing future climate change and response strategies. Therefore, it is important to regularly reassess the relevance of emissions scenarios in light of changing global circumstances and compare them with long-term developments to determine if they are still plausible, considering...

The original version of this Article contained errors in the caption of Figs. 1 and 2 and in Fig. 2. In the caption of Figs. 1 and 2, the description of the colour codes incorrectly read ‘low (vermillion), medium–low (bluish-green), medium–high (orange), and high (blue) emissions’. The correct version replaces this description with ‘low (bluish-gre...

Emissions from the manufacture of traded goods and services are increasing, leading to rising shares of global fossil-fuel CO2 from producing countries, particularly China and India. In contrast, EU-28 and North America “consume more than they produce” in terms of emissions – consumption-related emissions per capita for US and EU-28 are 1.3 and 1.4...

Long-term developments in carbon dioxide emissions have tracked the middle of projected emission scenario ranges over the past three decades. If this tendency continues, it seems increasingly less likely that future emissions will follow current high-emission scenarios. However, in the past, periods of slow and fast global emissions growth was obse...

Despite the progress in sustainable development strategies, the role of the Amazon rainforest as a carbon sink faces increasing disturbances that may have a critical impact on global climate. Understanding the vulnerability of the Amazon rainforest to climate change is a major challenge, considering the complex interaction between human and natural...

In the beginning of 2020, it looked like serious climate action was finally going to take place after decades of procrastination, but we are now inevitably leaving the transformation path. Abruptly (and remarkably), the coronavirus outbreak almost silenced all ongoing efforts to protect climate, while also bringing carbon emissions to a halt. A glo...

The implementation of household waste separation in the European Union (EU) faces challenges, and argued less successful than expected. This article reports on an anthropological case study in five apartment buildings in the Copenhagen area, Denmark, analyzing the relationship between the local municipal waste system and its users. The results reve...