by Robert Kelly | Nov 12, 2018 | Kaya Identity
Appearing in the earliest IPCC reports, the Kaya Identity is a venerable feature of climate change discussions. Based on the earlier IPAT approach developed by Barry Commoner, Paul Ehrlich and others during the 1970s debates on resource exhaustion, the Kaya Identity –...
by Robert Kelly | Oct 26, 2018 | Apollo Programme
The numbers are clear. We are pumping 50 gigatonnes of CO2-equivalent into the atmosphere each year. At current rates of emissions growth, the world will reach 1.5 degrees Celsius of human-induced warming within the next 30 years. The impacts will not be pleasant....
by Robert Kelly | Mar 22, 2018 | Permanence
[This is the second part of a two-part piece about permanence. Part 1 can be found here.] Permanence is a concept that’s easily grasped but not well understood. Arguably, that didn’t much matter when questions of permanence were confined to forestry and other LULUCF...
by Robert Kelly | Jan 8, 2018 | Permanence
Even within the climate community, permanence – the longevity of a carbon pool – is hardly a mainstream topic of conversation. Typically the province of forestry and LULUCF specialists, it occasionally receives an airing in debates about carbon capture and storage...
by Robert Kelly | Aug 8, 2017 | Transformational change
Article 6 of the Paris Agreement opens up opportunities for international collaboration on emissions reduction. Article 6.2 allows Parties to engage in “cooperative approaches”, whereby international transfers (Internationally Transferred Mitigation Outcomes, ITMOs)...
