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DOI	10.1088/1748-9326/ab9ed0
	Powers of 10: Seeking 'sweet spots' for rapid climate and sustainability actions between individual and global scales
	Bhowmik A.K.; McCaffrey M.S.; Ruskey A.M.; Frischmann C.; Gaffney O.
发表日期	2020
ISSN	17489318
卷号	15 期号:9
英文摘要	Achieving the goals of the Paris Agreement and related sustainability initiatives will require halving of global greenhouse gas emissions each decade from now on through to 2050, when net zero emissions should be achieved. To reach such significant reductions requires a rapid and strategic scaling of existing and emerging technologies and practices, coupled with economic and social transformations and novel governance solutions. Here we present a new 'Powers of 10' (P10) logarithmic framework and demonstrate its potential as a practical tool for decision makers and change agents at multiple scales to inform and catalyze engagement and actions, complementing and adding nuance to existing frameworks. P10 assists in identifying the suitable cohorts and cohort ranges for rapidly deploying climate and sustainability actions between a single individual and the globally projected ∼ 10 billion persons by 2050. Applying a robust dataset of climate solutions from Project Drawdown's Plausible scenario that could cumulatively reduce greenhouse gas emissions by 1051 gigatons (Gt) against a reference scenario (2190 Gt) between 2020 and 2050, we seek to identify a 'sweet spot' where these climate and sustainability actions are suitably scaled. We suggest that prioritizing the analyzed climate actions between community and urban scales, where global and local converge, can help catalyze and enhance individual, household and local practices, and support national and international policies and finances for rapid sustainability transformations. © 2020 The Author(s). Published by IOP Publishing Ltd.
英文关键词	agency; climate action; climate mitigation; paris agreement; scale; sustainability
语种	英语
scopus关键词	Decision making; Greenhouse gases; Sustainable development; Change agents; Decision makers; Emerging technologies; Global scale; International policies; Multiple scale; Social transformation; Zero emission; Gas emissions; action plan; carbon emission; climate change; emission control; global change; power plant; sustainability
来源期刊	Environmental Research Letters
文献类型	期刊论文
条目标识符	http://gcip.llas.ac.cn/handle/2XKMVOVA/153817
作者单位	Risk and Environmental Studies, Karlstad University, Karlstad, SE 651 88, Sweden; Ecos, Un Climate Change Community for Education, Communication and Outreach Stakeholders, Kisbágyon, 3046, Hungary; Management of Complex Systems, School of Engineering, University of California, Merced, CA 95343, United States; Project Drawdown, Sausalito, CA 94965, United States; Stockholm Resilience Centre, Stockholm, SE-104 05, Sweden; Potsdam Institute for Climate Impact Research, Potsdam, DE 14473, Germany
推荐引用方式 GB/T 7714	Bhowmik A.K.,McCaffrey M.S.,Ruskey A.M.,et al. Powers of 10: Seeking 'sweet spots' for rapid climate and sustainability actions between individual and global scales[J],2020,15(9).
APA	Bhowmik A.K.,McCaffrey M.S.,Ruskey A.M.,Frischmann C.,&Gaffney O..(2020).Powers of 10: Seeking 'sweet spots' for rapid climate and sustainability actions between individual and global scales.Environmental Research Letters,15(9).
MLA	Bhowmik A.K.,et al."Powers of 10: Seeking 'sweet spots' for rapid climate and sustainability actions between individual and global scales".Environmental Research Letters 15.9(2020).