Honegger, Matthias; Burns, Wil; Morrow, David R. (2021): Is carbon dioxide removal ‘mitigation of climate change’? In RECIEL. DOI: 10.1111/reel.12401.

"We unpack how the ‘mitigation of climate change’ – as defined in the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change and its Paris Agreement – includes CDR as defined by the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change."

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Giannousakis, Anastasis; Hilaire, Jérôme; Nemet, Gregory F.; Luderer, Gunnar; Pietzcker, Robert C.; Rodrigues, Renato et al. (2021): How uncertainty in technology costs and carbon dioxide removal availability affect climate mitigation pathways. In Energy 216, p. 119253. DOI: 10.1016/j.energy.2020.119253.

"We assess how energy supply costs and carbon dioxide removal (CDR) availability affect mitigation by performing a sensitivity analysis with the energy-economy-climate model REMIND. We use new scenarios with carbon price paths that aim to reduce the frequently seen temperature overshoot."

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Grassi, Giacomo; Stehfest, Elke; Rogelj, Joeri; van Vuuren, Detlef; Cescatti, Alessandro; House, Jo et al. (2021): Critical adjustment of land mitigation pathways for assessing countries’ climate progress. In Nat. Clim. Chang. DOI: 10.1038/s41558-021-01033-6.

"Here we present a ‘Rosetta stone’ adjustment to translate IAMs’ land-use mitigation pathways to estimates more comparable with GHG inventories."

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Drake, Henri F.; Rivest, Ronald L.; Edelman, Alan; Deutch, John (2020): A Multi-control Climate Policy Process for a Designated Decision Maker. Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Cambridge, MA (MIT CEEPR Working Paper Series).

"We present an idealized model of optimally-controlled climate change, which is complementary to simpler analytical models and more comprehensive Integrated Assessment Models. We show that the four methods of controlling climate damage– mitigation, carbon dioxide removal, adaptation, and solar radiation modification– are not interchangeable, as they enter at different stages of the causal chain that connects GHG emissions to climate damages."

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