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CICERO and Norwegian Space Agency presents: Satellites and climate

Norwegian Space Agency and CICERO invites to panel discussion on satellites and climate.

How achievable is the Methane Pledge?

Tackling methane emissions now is a must in order to have a chance of limiting global warming to 1.5°C. The Methane Pledge is an international political initiative to reduce methane emissions 30% by 2030, but how likely is this and where would these reductions come from?

UN Climate Panel: Time is running out

Never before have so many people done so much to limit greenhouse gas emissions. Still, time is running out for the 1.5-degree target. There is technology, enough capital and a lot of political will, but the pace must increase on all fronts if we are to avoid dangerous climate change, shows a new report from the UN Climate Panel.

CICERO researchers contributing to the IPCC’s Sixth Assessment Report

Researchers from CICERO are contributing to the world's most prominent assessment of climate knowledge in areas such as regional impact, investment and finance, political science, climate scenarios and atmospheric sciences.

Global warming on a steady course

In a recent study published in Nature Communications, international scientists have taken on a persistent problem in climate science: near-term climate evolution.

How representative is Svalbard for future Arctic climate evolution? An Earth system modelling perspective

Ada Gjermundsen, Lise Seland Graff, Mats Bentsen, Lars-Anders Breivik, Jens Debernard, Risto Makkonen, Dirk Jan Leo Oliviè, Øyvind Seland, Paul Zieger, M Schulz

How changes brought on by coronavirus could help tackle climate change

Glen Peters

Global patterns of daily CO2 emissions reductions in the first year of COVID-19

Zhu Liu, Zhu Deng, Biqing Zhu, Philippe Ciais, Steven J. Davis, Jianguang Tan, Robbie Andrew, Olivier Boucher, Simon Ben Arous, Josep G. Canadell, Xinyu Dou, Pierre Friedlingstein, Pierre Gentine, Rui Guo, Chaopeng Hong, Robert B. Jackson, Daniel M. Kammen, Piyu Ke, Corinne Le Quéré, Crippa Monica, Greet Janssens-Maenhout, Glen Peters, Katsumasa Tanaka, Yilong Wang, Bo Zheng, Haiwang Zhong, Taochun Sun, Hans Joachim Schellnhuber

An agenda for future Social Sciences and Humanities research on energy efficiency: 100 priority research questions

Chris Foulds, Sarah Royston, Thomas Berker, Efi Nakopoulou, Zareen Pervez Bharucha, Rosie Robison, Simone Abram, Branko Ančić, Stathis Arapostathis, Gabriel Badescu, Richard Bull, Jed Cohen, Tessa Dunlop, Niall Dunphy, Claire Dupont, Corinna Fischer, Kirsten Gram-Hanssen, Catherine Grandclément, Eva Heiskanen, Nicola Labanca, Maria Jeliazkova, Helge Jörgens, Margit Keller, Florian Kern, Patrizia Lombardi, Ruth Mourik, Michael Ornetzeder, Peter J. G. Pearson, Harald Rohracher, Marlyne Sahakian, Ramazan Sari, Karina Standal, Lidija Živčič

Land-atmosphere interactions in sub-polar and alpine climates in the CORDEX flagship pilot study Land Use and Climate Across Scales (LUCAS) models-Part 1: Evaluation of the snow-albedo effect

Anne Sophie Daloz, Clemens Schwingshackl, Priscilla A. Mooney, Susanna Strada, Diana Rechid, Edouard L. Davin, Eleni Katragkou, Nathalie De Noblet-Ducoudré, Michal Belda, Tomas Halenka, Marcus Breil, Rita M. Cardoso, Peter Hoffmann, Daniela C. A. Lima, Ronny Meier, Pedro M. M. Soares, Giannis Sofiadis, Gustav Strandberg, Merja H. Toelle, Marianne Tronstad Lund

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