Mitchell Dann, Allen Myles R, Hall Jim W, Muller Benito, Rajamani Lavanya, Le Quéré Corinne
School of Geographical Sciences, University of Bristol, Bristol, UK
Environmental Change Institute, University of Oxford, Oxford, UK.
Philos Trans A Math Phys Eng Sci. 2018 May 13;376(2119). doi: 10.1098/rsta.2018.0066.
The much awaited and intensely negotiated Paris Agreement was adopted on 12 December 2015 by the Parties to the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change. The agreement set out a more ambitious long-term temperature goal than many had anticipated, implying more stringent emissions reductions that have been under-explored by the research community. By its very nature a multidisciplinary challenge, filling the knowledge gap requires not only climate scientists, but the whole Earth system science community, as well as economists, engineers, lawyers, philosophers, politicians, emergency planners and others to step up. To kick start cross-disciplinary discussions, the University of Oxford's Environmental Change Institute focused its 25th anniversary conference upon meeting the challenges of the Paris Agreement for science and society. This theme issue consists of review papers, opinion pieces and original research from some of the presentations within that meeting, covering a wide range of issues underpinning the Paris Agreement.This article is part of the theme issue 'The Paris Agreement: understanding the physical and social challenges for a warming world of 1.5°C above pre-industrial levels'.
备受期待且经过激烈谈判的《巴黎协定》于2015年12月12日由《联合国气候变化框架公约》缔约方通过。该协定设定的长期温度目标比许多人预期的更为雄心勃勃，这意味着需要更严格地减排，而这一点研究界尚未充分探讨。从本质上讲，这是一个多学科挑战，填补知识空白不仅需要气候科学家，还需要整个地球系统科学界以及经济学家、工程师、律师、哲学家、政治家、应急规划人员和其他人员挺身而出。为了启动跨学科讨论，牛津大学环境变化研究所将其25周年会议聚焦于应对《巴黎协定》给科学和社会带来的挑战。本专题文章集包括该会议上一些演讲中的综述论文、观点文章和原创研究，涵盖了支撑《巴黎协定》的广泛问题。本文是专题“《巴黎协定》：理解在比工业化前水平高1.5°C的变暖世界中的自然和社会挑战”的一部分。
