These results and the emerging additional regions of highest
climate change vulnerability
under high emissions
scenarios (Figures S7, S8, S9) suggest that global policies that mitigate greenhouse gas emissions will substantially
reduce species»
climate change vulnerability.
Abstract: An evaluation of analyses sponsored by the predecessor to the U.K. Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs (DEFRA) of the global impacts of
climate change under various mitigation
scenarios (including CO2 stabilization at 550 and 750 ppm) coupled with an examination of the relative costs associated with different schemes to either mitigate
climate change or
reduce vulnerability to various
climate - sensitive hazards (namely, malaria, hunger, water shortage, coastal flooding, and losses of global forests and coastal wetlands) indicates that, at least for the next few decades, risks and / or threats associated with these hazards would be lowered much more effectively and economically by
reducing current and future vulnerability to those hazards rather than through stabilization.
5 — I suspect that the impact of your plan (as I read it) could be worse than the impact of
climate change under a non-BAU
scenario (i.e. one where we gradually
reduce emissions down to zero over the course of say 3 - 5 decades and then manage to go carbon - negative — more on that below).