International action - Scientific assessment
Avoiding Dangerous Climate Change
The Avoiding Dangerous Climate Change book consolidates the scientific findings of the Exeter conference and gives an account of the most recent developments on critical thresholds and key vulnerabilities of the climate system, impacts on human and natural systems, emission pathways and technological options of meeting different stabilisation levels of greenhouse gases in the atmosphere.
The book focuses on three crucial questions:
1. For different levels of climate change what are the key impacts, for different regions and sectors, and for the world as a whole?
2. What would such levels of climate change imply in terms of greenhouse gas stabilisation concentrations and emission pathways required to achieve such levels?
3. What technological options are there for achieving stabilisation of greenhouse gases at different stabilisation concentrations in the atmosphere, taking into account costs and uncertainties?
-
Avoiding Dangerous Climate Change - full text of book
(16.3 MB - note very large file size) -
Avoiding Dangerous Climate Change - executive summary
(168 KB)
The book can be ordered online via the Cambridge University Press website.
Further information is available on our Help page about downloading or reading Adobe Acrobat documents.
Page published: 30 January, 2006