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Carbon budgets
Coverage of Carbon budgets in the Nexus archive.
- Enhanced response of extreme compound events to cumulative CO 2 emissions
A new metric shows that compound climate extremes rise faster with cumulative CO2 emissions than models project, implying higher risks and smaller remaining carbon budgets for the 1.5 °C and 2 °C targets. The study was published in Nature. Cumulative CO2 emissions have a significant impact on climate extremes.