Photograph by Rhett Butler

Photograph by Rhett Butler

Climate Science

Academic members of CLARA have published on issues pertaining to:

  • Carbon budgets, ‘climate ambition’, and the race to real zero

  • Use of the Shared Socioeconomic Pathways [SSPs]

  • Use of offsets and the construction of carbon markets

  • Food security, climate change, and agroecological transitions.

Our major scientific publication is Missing Pathways from 2018.

Lead Author: Dr. Kate Dooley, now at the University of Melbourne.

CLARA has also commented on the release of IPCC Special Reports in this 6th Assessment Cycle.  Most recently this includes comments regarding the joint IPBES/IPCC Workshop on biodiversity conservation and climate, and a response to the IPCC Special Report on Land.