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Climate Target-setting

Climate Target-Setting is a normative governance framework that establishes specific, measurable, and time-bound objectives for greenhouse gas emissions reductions or climate resilience outcomes, distinguishing it from related climate policy instruments by its focus on defining strategic ambitions and performance benchmarks to guide compliance and accountability mechanisms.

216

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14.6K

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729

Authors

331

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2017–2026

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Publications

216

Allowable CO2 emissions based on regional and impact-related climate targets

Sonia I. Seneviratne, Markus G. Donat, A. J. Pitman et al. · Nature · 2016 · 752 citations · Full text

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A proposed global layout of carbon capture and storage in line with a 2 °C climate target

Yi‐Ming Wei, Jia-Ning Kang, Lan-Cui Liu et al. · Nature Climate Change · 2021 · 421 citations

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Why the right climate target was agreed in Paris

Hans Joachim Schellnhuber, Stefan Rahmstorf, Ricarda Winkelmann · Nature Climate Change · 2016 · 413 citations

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Land-use emissions play a critical role in land-based mitigation for Paris climate targets

Anna Harper, Tom Powell, Peter M. Cox et al. · Nature Communications · 2018 · 345 citations · Full text

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The 2 °C Global Temperature Target and the Evolution of the Long-Term Goal of Addressing Climate Change—From the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change to the Paris Agreement

Yun Gao, Xiang Gao, Xiaohua Zhang · Engineering · 2017 · 338 citations · Full text

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Authors

729

  1. DP
    Detlef P. van Vuuren

    Netherlands Environmental Assessment Agency, Netherlands

    10 publications · 1.2K citations

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  2. EK
    Elmar Kriegler

    Potsdam Institute for Climate Impact Research, Germany

    6 publications · 757 citations

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  3. MD
    Michel den Elzen

    Netherlands Environmental Assessment Agency, Netherlands

    5 publications · 363 citations

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  4. RS
    Richard S.J. Tol

    Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam, Netherlands

    5 publications · 258 citations

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  5. MM
    Malte Meinshausen

    Potsdam Institute for Climate Impact Research, Germany

    5 publications · 598 citations

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Institutions

331

  1. Potsdam Institute for Climate Impact Research

    Potsdam, Germany

    14 h-index

    66 publications

    7K citations

  2. International Institute for Applied Systems Analysis

    Laxenburg, Austria

    14 h-index

    34 publications

    5K citations

  3. Utrecht University

    Utrecht, The Netherlands

    13 h-index

    23 publications

    2.7K citations

  4. Netherlands Environmental Assessment Agency

    The Hague, The Netherlands

    11 h-index

    24 publications

    2.8K citations

  5. Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam

    Amsterdam, The Netherlands

    11 h-index

    12 publications

    700 citations

  6. Technische Universität Berlin

    Berlin, Germany

    8 h-index

    13 publications

    964 citations

  7. ETH Zurich

    Zurich, Switzerland

    8 h-index

    12 publications

    2.1K citations

  8. Mercator Research Institute on Global Commons and Climate Change

    Berlin, Germany

    7 h-index

    11 publications

    421 citations

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Venues

  1. Climate Policy

    25 publications · 1.4K citations

    18

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  2. Climatic Change

    10 publications · 551 citations

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  3. Energy Policy

    7 publications · 395 citations

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  4. Environmental Research Letters

    ERL · 6 publications · 440 citations

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  5. SSRN Electronic Journal

    Repository · 6 publications · 124 citations

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