Zickfeld, Kirsten; Azevedo, Deven; Mathesius, Sabine; Matthews, H. Damon (2021): Asymmetry in the climate–carbon cycle response to positive and negative CO2 emissions. In Nat. Clim. Chang., pp. 1–5. DOI: 10.1038/s41558-021-01061-2.

" It is commonly assumed that the climate–carbon cycle response to a negative CO₂ emission is equal in magnitude and opposite in sign to the response to an equivalent positive CO₂ emission. Here we test the hypothesis that this response is symmetric by forcing an Earth system model with positive and negative CO₂ emission pulses of varying magnitude and applied from different climate states."

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Hannah, Lee (2022): Chapter 21 - Mitigation: Reducing Greenhouse Gas Emissions, Sinks, and Solutions. In Lee Jay Hannah (Ed.): Climate change biology. Third edition. London, [Amsterdam]: Academic Press, pp. 439–472.

"Stopping climate change requires much more than emissions reductions: it requires stabilizing atmospheric greenhouse gas (GHG) concentrations. In the absence of large new additional sinks for CO₂ and other GHGs, stabilization equates to reducing emissions nearly to zero. In turn, near-zero emissions means complete transition of the world's energy supply to renewable (non-CO₂-emitting) sources. This is a huge task—one that will need to be accomplished in stages."

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Sasaki, Nophea; Myint, Yadanar Yè; Abe, Issei; Venkatappa, Manjunatha (2021): Predicting carbon emissions, emissions reductions, and carbon removal due to deforestation and plantation forests in Southeast Asia. In Journal of Cleaner Production 312, p. 127728. DOI: 10.1016/j.jclepro.2021.127728.

"Here, we assessed carbon stocks, carbon emissions, removals, and reductions due to deforestation and management of the natural (NFs) and plantation forests (PFs) in Southeast Asia. We found that area of NFs declined about 1.09 million ha or 0.52% yr⁻¹ over the last 20 years but only approximately 0.29 million ha was converted to PFs."

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"It’s easy to see why infrastructure spending would cut emissions, while creating jobs. Carbon taxes appear to do the same."

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