This repository accompanies the paper:
[Anonymised] Fair carbon removal obligations under climate uncertainty. DOI:
To replicate the analysis here, you will need the following datafiles. Please update the file paths in the env.sample file we have provided and rename it to .env.
Meinshausen, M., Meinshausen, N., Hare, W., Raper, S. C. B., Frieler, K., Knutti, R., Frame, D. J., & Allen, M. R. (2009). Greenhouse-gas emission targets for limiting global warming to 2 °C. Nature, 458(7242), 1158–1162. https://doi.org/10.1038/nature08017
Meinshausen, M., Nicholls, Z. R. J., Lewis, J., Gidden, M. J., Vogel, E., Freund, M., Beyerle, U., Gessner, C., Nauels, A., Bauer, N., Canadell, J. G., Daniel, J. S., John, A., Krummel, P. B., Luderer, G., Meinshausen, N., Montzka, S. A., Rayner, P. J., Reimann, S., … Wang, R. H. J. (2020). The shared socio-economic pathway (SSP) greenhouse gas concentrations and their extensions to 2500. Geoscientific Model Development, 13(8), 3571–3605. https://doi.org/10.5194/gmd-13-3571-2020
Meinshausen, M., Raper, S. C. B., & Wigley, T. M. L. (2011). Emulating coupled atmosphere-ocean and carbon cycle models with a simpler model, MAGICC6 – Part 1: Model description and calibration. Atmospheric Chemistry and Physics, 11(4), 1417–1456. https://doi.org/10.5194/acp-11-1417-2011
Riahi, K. et al. Mitigation pathways compatible with long-term goals. in IPCC, 2022: Climate Change 2022: Mitigation of Climate Change. Contribution of Working Group III to the Sixth Assessment Report of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (eds. Shukla, P. R. et al.) (Cambridge University Press, 2022). doi:10.1017/9781009157926.005.
Byers, E. et al. AR6 Scenarios Database. (2022) doi:10.5281/zenodo.5886912.
We have provided an environment.yml file to help set up a dedicated python environment to run this analysis. To set it up, run the following in your command line:
conda env create --file environment.yml
conda activate cdr_climate_uncertainty