RESEARCH other alternative metrics

[hoernschen]

Is there good literatur for interesting metrics to make carbon emission better understandable?

[hoernschen]

Hot topics to elaborate:

• climate migration (number of people)
• climate deaths (number of people)
• shortened lifespan from bad life quality
• food security
• water shortage (evaporation)

[tr1ng0]

The IPCC has a VERY HIGH CONFIDENCE for the following impacts of global warming:

1. Climate-related illnesses
2. premature deaths
3. malnutrition in all its forms
4. threats to mental health and well-being are increasing (very high confidence1 )

Additionally, there is a HIGH CONFIDENCE that global warming increases

5. Migration
6. Conflicts

while at the same time, actions taken have a very high confidence to reduce or avoid negative effects for human health an well being

I would propose, that we align our reported metrics to at least some of those. I will dive deeper to get more data and reportable metrics

[tr1ng0]

Premature Deaths Directly addressed in 2019, around every one thousand ton of Co2e one premature death occurs. Therefore, a direct link between the estimated carbon emissions and the impact on society can be made.

Journal Ranking & Pradatory Risk Assessment:

Source: https://www.frontiersin.org/journals/psychology/articles/10.3389/fpsyg.2019.02323/full?fbclid

[tr1ng0]

Migration per ton of carbon:

Difficult Metric, with no direct paper addressing this. It is possible to make (VERY) rough assumptions based on the following data: Gigaton of Co2e Budget for either the 1,5 or 2 degrees goal. Source You then take the budget and break it down to estimated global migration numbers linked to global warming.

Question: is this a sufficient evidence based metric then? I mean any number is better then none at the moment, but do we sacrifice legitimacy and or trust for providing such an oversimplified calculation?