As the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) releases its special report on the impacts of global warming of 1.5 °C, this special collection offers an insight into the IPCC’s investigations of how this ambitious climate goal – discussed as an "aspiration" in Paris in 2015 – could affect Earth and its inhabitants.
IPCC Special Report on Global Warming of 1.5 °C finds lower temperature goal has clear benefits for people and natural ecosystems
Following the 1.5 °C aim agreed in Paris in 2015, the IPCC came together once more to assess the ramifications. Kate Ravilious investigates the background
Fraction of world population exposed to severe heat waves every five years becomes three times larger under 2 °C warming
Global carbon pricing cost-effective but not realistic in near future, according to team
Energy emissions in 2030 may be double 2012 levels or less, thanks to low demand for electricity and faster transition to renewables
Savings from damage avoidance estimated at 30 times higher than costs of meeting target
Researchers propose food security policies to prevent reversal of hunger decline
New definition of climate outlooks suggests IPCC assumptions on future carbon intensity may mislead
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This special collection of research papers and review articles presents the latest thinking on the potential impact of global warming of 1.5 °C above pre-industrial levels. All articles in the collection are relevant to the IPCC's special report on "Global Warming of 1.5 °C", also known as SR1.5.
Andrew D King and David J Karoly 2017 Environ. Res. Lett. 12 114031
Read more on IOPscienceKlaus Bittermann et al 2017 Environ. Res. Lett. 12 124010
Read more on IOPscienceVimal Mishra et al 2017 Environ. Res. Lett. 12 124012
Read more on IOPscienceJan C Minx et al 2018 Environ. Res. Lett. 13 063001
Read more on IOPscienceEleanor J Burke et al 2018 Environ. Res. Lett. 13 024024
Read more on IOPscienceGrigory Nikulin et al 2018 Environ. Res. Lett. 13 065003
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ERL is a high-impact, open access journal covering environmental science, change and management. The journal’s coverage reflects the increasingly interdisciplinary nature of environmental science; submissions from across all components of the Earth system are welcome, especially work relevant to policy, impacts, and decision-making.
Fast growth could partially offset human-caused loss
As the world warms, the horizons also widen for the mosquito risk to health, putting another billion people in jeopardy
Combining data and models could predict impacts on caribou, polar bears and Dall sheep
The notes left by the US thinker and naturalist known as the sage of Walden Pond have yielded more evidence of climate change
Loss of sea-ice reduces snowmobile access in autumn and winter
What does oceanic carbon uptake achieve? Greenhouse gas that sinks below the waves slows global warming a little and makes water more acidic
Concern about global warming rose after viewing talk by Christian climate scientist Katharine Hayhoe
Yellow fever, chikungunya, dengue and Zika could become more common in the UK and other northerly countries
As greenhouse-gas consumers, young forests use carbon more industriously in the temperate and cool zones than older forests
Do people harmed by extreme weather suffer from "gambler's fallacy"?
Machine learning assesses how much carbon 1.2 trillion new trees could store
On the fishing grounds, they already know about global warming. As fish flee warmer seas there are winners – but many more losers
Europe and US could see more frequent intense rainfall events as climate changes
We need to prepare our health systems to manage changes in the magnitude and pattern of climate-sensitive health outcomes as climate changes, says Kristie Ebi
The planet’s temperature could zoom in an ever more greenhouse world, as researchers identify a dangerous possible cloud tipping point
Pressure forecasts beat temperature at forecasting heating use
Residents of the largest cities tend to travel further afield for leisure, even though they are environmentally conscious in other ways. Michał Czepkiewicz and Jukka Heinonen inve...
Scientists propose new index of global warming and sea-ice loss
