Helping operationalise Article 2: A transdisciplinary methodological tool for evaluating when climate change is dangerous

J. Gupta, H.D. van Asselt

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Abstract

Although a global climate regime has been developed, decisions regarding a definition of dangerous climate change have been postponed in the political arena and have only been marginally addressed by the IPCC. This paper presents a participatory integrated assessment method, consisting of an iterative set of science-policy dialogues within and between countries, as well as a focus on indicators of dangerous climate impacts, short-listing and clustering these indicators, identifying threshold levels of unacceptable impacts, and then back-calculating to greenhouse gas concentration levels. This method, applied in the Netherlands, yielded some interesting results and some consensus knowledge among the stakeholders who participated. © 2005 Elsevier Ltd. All rights reserved.
Original languageEnglish
Pages (from-to)83-94
Number of pages12
JournalGlobal Environmental Change
Volume16
DOIs
Publication statusPublished - 2006

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