Overshoot, adapt and recover

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We will probably overshoot our current climate targets, so policies of adaptation and recovery need much more attention, say Martin Parry, Jason Lowe and Clair Hanson.

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Figure 1: Temperature scenarios.
Figure 2: Expected effects on a range of global sectors for different global mean temperature increases from preindustrial levels.

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  1. Jason Lowe is head of mitigation advice at the Met Office, Exeter EX1 3PB, UK.

  2. Clair Hanson was deputy director of the 2007 IPCC Working Group II technical support unit and is at the University of East Anglia, Norwich NR4 7TJ, UK.

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  1. Martin Parry was co-chair of the IPCC's 2007 Working Group II assessment and is now at the Grantham Institute for Climate Change and Centre for Environmental Policy, Imperial College London, London SW7 2AR, UK. martin@mlparry.com

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Parry, M., Lowe, J. & Hanson, C. Overshoot, adapt and recover. Nature 458, 1102–1103 (2009). https://doi.org/10.1038/4581102a

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