Study: Accounting for value of nature reinforces Paris climate targets
A new study in Nature Sustainability incorporates the damages that climate change does to healthy ecosystems into standard climate-economics models. The key finding in the study by Bernardo Bastien-Olvera and Frances Moore from the University of California at Davis: The models have been underestimating the cost of climate damages to society by a factor of more than five.
Their study concludes that the most cost-effective emissions pathway results in just 1.5 degrees Celsius (2.7 degrees Fahrenheit) additional global warming by 2100, consistent with the “aspirational” objective of the 2015 Paris Climate Agreement.
Models that combine climate science and economics, called “integrated assessment models” (IAMs), are critical tools in developing and implementing climate policies and regulations. In 2010, an Obama administration governmental interagency working group used IAMs to establish the social cost o
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Size matters. So does substance. India’s biggest projects are in Gujarat. Five of our 13 Nobel Laureates are from Bengal December 21, 2020, 8:56 AM IST
A journalist who has lived all over India and is now based in Bangalore
The Covid-infested year 2020 began with the construction completed of the world’s biggest cricket stadium in Gujarat’s largest city of Ahmedabad with the capacity to seat 110,000 spectators. The end of the year saw the Indian team being bowled out by Australia at Adelaide for its lowest-ever score in Test cricket.
The foundation-stone for the world’s largest renewable energy park was laid in Gujarat’s district of Kutch by Prime Minister Narendra Modi on December 15, just five days before Team India set its dubious record at Adelaide. The hybrid renewable energy park, which will utilize both solar and wind power, will generate 38,000 megawatts of power and will come up within five year
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Meanwhile, faculty also transformed their curriculum to meet the new demands of online learning. Students showed resiliency as they adjusted to these new virtual learning spaces and staff too found new ways to connect with one another while working from home. Despite these setbacks, research also continued with innovations in science and technology and new understandings about the world from the social sciences, arts and humanities. And in the wake of George Floyd’s tragic death in Minneapolis, students, staff and faculty came together to find ways to tackle anti-Black racism and advance divers