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The Value of Article 6 of the Paris Agreement for Meeting Nationally Determined Contributions

Thursday, Sept 6

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Jae Edmonds, Chief Scientist and Battelle Fellow,
PNNL Joint Global Change Research Institute

About the Speaker

Jae Edmonds is a researcher at the Joint Global Change Research Institute, a collaboration between the Pacific Northwest National Laboratory (PNNL), where he is Chief Scientist and Battelle Fellow, and at the University of Maryland in College Park, where he is College Park Professor of Public Policy. He is one of the pioneers in the field of integrated assessment modeling of global change. His research focuses on interactions between global and regional energy, technology, economy, land, water, atmosphere, and climate systems and global change. His work spans four decades, producing several books, numerous scientific papers and countless presentations. His work has more than 26,000 citations. In 1978 he began what has developed into the Global Change Assessment Model, a frontier-class integrated model of energy, economy, water, land and climate interactions. He has been an active participant in all of the major assessments of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change. He serves on numerous committees, panels and advisory boards.
 

About the Talk

Most of the world’s nations have put forward nationally determined contributions (NDCs) to limit their radiatively important emissions. Article 6 of the Paris Agreement allows countries to work together to implement their NDCs, as long as they do not double-count. Remarkably absent from the discussion has been a sense of how large the degree of cooperation could become, either in physical or financial terms. In this talk we present research that explores both of these questions. We show that both the maximum potential cost savings and ambition enhancement are substantial--$250 billion/year and 5 GtCO2/year. However, real world considerations could limit realized potential.

 


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