TY - JOUR
T1 - Improving Climate Change Mitigation Analysis
T2 - A Framework for Examining Feasibility
AU - Nielsen, Kristian S.
AU - Stern, Paul C.
AU - Dietz, Thomas
AU - Gilligan, Jonathan M.
AU - Vuuren, Detlef P. van
AU - Figueroa, Maria J.
AU - Folke, Carl
AU - Gwozdz, Wencke
AU - Ivanova, Diana
AU - Reisch, Lucia A.
AU - Vandenbergh, Michael P.
AU - Wolske, Kimberly S.
AU - Wood, Richard
PY - 2020
Y1 - 2020
N2 - Limiting global warming to 2°C or less compared with pre-industrial temperatures will require unprecedented rates of decarbonization globally. The scale and scope of transformational change required across sectors and actors in society raises critical questions of feasibility. Much of the literature on mitigation pathways addresses technological and economic aspects of feasibility, but overlooks the behavioral, cultural, and social factors that affect theoretical and practical mitigation pathways. We present a tripartite framework that “unpacks” the concept of mitigation pathways by distinguishing three factors that together determine actual mitigation: technical potential, initiative feasibility, and behavioral plasticity. The framework aims to integrate and streamline heterogeneous disciplinary research traditions toward a more comprehensive and transparent approach that will facilitate learning across disciplines and enable mitigation pathways to more fully reflect available knowledge. We offer three suggestions for integrating the tripartite framework into current research on climate change mitigation.
AB - Limiting global warming to 2°C or less compared with pre-industrial temperatures will require unprecedented rates of decarbonization globally. The scale and scope of transformational change required across sectors and actors in society raises critical questions of feasibility. Much of the literature on mitigation pathways addresses technological and economic aspects of feasibility, but overlooks the behavioral, cultural, and social factors that affect theoretical and practical mitigation pathways. We present a tripartite framework that “unpacks” the concept of mitigation pathways by distinguishing three factors that together determine actual mitigation: technical potential, initiative feasibility, and behavioral plasticity. The framework aims to integrate and streamline heterogeneous disciplinary research traditions toward a more comprehensive and transparent approach that will facilitate learning across disciplines and enable mitigation pathways to more fully reflect available knowledge. We offer three suggestions for integrating the tripartite framework into current research on climate change mitigation.
KW - Climate change mitigation
KW - Interdisciplinarity
KW - Practical feasibility
KW - Climate change mitigation
KW - Interdisciplinarity
KW - Practical feasibility
U2 - 10.1016/j.oneear.2020.08.007
DO - 10.1016/j.oneear.2020.08.007
M3 - Review article
SN - 2590-3322
VL - 3
SP - 325
EP - 336
JO - One Earth
JF - One Earth
IS - 3
ER -