{"id":721850,"date":"2010-04-22T12:44:46","date_gmt":"2010-04-22T16:44:46","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.metasd.com\/?p=984"},"modified":"2026-10-04T12:25:09","modified_gmt":"2026-10-04T16:25:09","slug":"another-look-at-inadequate-copenhagen-pledges","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/721850","title":{"rendered":"Another look at inadequate Copenhagen pledges"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Joeri Rogelj and others argue that <em><a href=\"http:\/\/www.nature.com\/nature\/journal\/v464\/n7292\/full\/4641126a.html\">Copenhagen Accord pledges are paltry<\/a><\/em> in a Nature Opinion,<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p>Current national emissions targets can&#8217;t limit global warming to 2 \u00b0C, calculate Joeri Rogelj, Malte Meinshausen and colleagues \u2014 they might even lock the world into exceeding 3 \u00b0C warming.<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Nations will probably meet only the lower ends of their emissions pledges in the absence of a binding international agreement<\/li>\n<li>Nations can bank an estimated 12 gigatonnes of Co2 equivalents surplus allowances for use after 2012<\/li>\n<li>Land-use rules are likely to result in further allowance increases of 0.5 GtCO2-eq per year<\/li>\n<li>Global emissions in 2020 could thus be up to 20% higher than today<\/li>\n<li>Current pledges mean a greater than 50% chance that warming will exceed 3\u00b0C by 2100<\/li>\n<li>If nations agree to halve emissions by 2050, there is still a 50% chance that warming will exceed 2\u00b0C and will almost certainly exceed 1.5\u00b0C<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>Via Nature&#8217;s Climate Feedback, <a href=\"http:\/\/blogs.nature.com\/climatefeedback\/2010\/04\/copenhagen_accord_missing_the.html\"><em>Copenhagen  Accord &#8211; missing the mark<\/em><\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Joeri Rogelj and others argue that Copenhagen Accord pledges are paltry in a Nature Opinion, Current national emissions targets can&#8217;t limit global warming to 2 \u00b0C, calculate Joeri Rogelj, Malte Meinshausen and colleagues \u2014 they might even lock the world into exceeding 3 \u00b0C warming. Nations will probably meet only the lower ends of their [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":769,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"advanced_seo_description":"","jetpack_seo_html_title":"","jetpack_seo_noindex":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[4821],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-721850","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p9NivD-31MK","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/721850","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/769"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=721850"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/721850\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":823459,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/721850\/revisions\/823459"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=721850"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=721850"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=721850"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}