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Society-wide scenarios for effective climate change mitigation in Ireland (Synthesis Report)

McMullin, Barry ORCID: 0000-0002-5789-2068 and Price, Paul R. ORCID: 0000-0002-7995-6712 (2020) Society-wide scenarios for effective climate change mitigation in Ireland (Synthesis Report). Policy Report. Environmental Protection Agency (Ireland). ISBN 978-1-84095-956-7

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Abstract

Global climate action is not currently aligned with the Paris Agreement goals to limit temperature rise to “well below 2°C” over pre-industrial levels and to pursue efforts to limit it to 1.5°C. Societal well-being and economic stability continue to be highly dependent on climate-polluting inputs – especially fossil fuels for energy and nitrogen fertiliser for agriculture. The research project Society-wide Scenarios for Effective Climate Change Mitigation in Ireland (SSECCM) was a 1-year, preliminary desk study undertaken to inform the implementation of Irish policy on climate mitigation in the context of European Union (EU) and Paris Agreement objectives. It evaluated international studies of society-wide, long-term climate action scenarios, identifying their relevance to the specific situation in Ireland. Although carbon dioxide (CO2) remains the single most important greenhouse gas (GHG) to consider, emissions of methane (CH4) and nitrous oxide (N2O) also make a significant contribution to global climate disruption. The last two are especially important to Ireland because, although CO2 remains the dominant GHG, we have comparatively high emissions of these other GHGs, primarily from animal agriculture. A new open-source spreadsheet tool, “GHG-WE”, was developed for the project and has been released under an open licence. This tool incorporates GWP* (modified global warming potential), a metric recently developed to more accurately represent the combined climate effects of different GHGs.

Item Type:Monograph (Policy Report)
Refereed:Yes
Uncontrolled Keywords:Climate change; Energy systems; Decarbonisation; Socioeconomic transformation; Greenhouse Gas Equivalents
Subjects:Engineering > Environmental engineering
Engineering > Systems engineering
Social Sciences > Political science
DCU Faculties and Centres:DCU Faculties and Schools > Faculty of Engineering and Computing > School of Electronic Engineering
Research Initiatives and Centres > INSIGHT Centre for Data Analytics
Publisher:Environmental Protection Agency (Ireland)
Official URL:http://www.epa.ie/pubs/reports/research/climate/Research_Report_352.pdf
Copyright Information:Copyright 2020 EPA. All or part of this publication may be reproduced without further permission, provided the source is acknowledged.
Use License:This item is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-Share Alike 3.0 License. View License
Funders:Environmental Protection Agency (Ireland)
ID Code:25091
Deposited On:04 Nov 2020 15:11 by Barry Mcmullin . Last Modified 04 Nov 2020 15:11

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