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Negative emissions to mitigate Earth system risks
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DOI：10.1038/s41467-026-69896-x.png)
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Most climate policies are designed under a deterministic Earth system and their climate implications evaluated ex-post. Approaches that incorporate uncertainty ex-ante to anticipate Earth system risks remain underexplored. Here, we derive global climate strategies with an ex-ante approach, employing an integrated assessment framework that embeds estimates of physical uncertainty obtained through Bayesian fusion of Earth system models’ and observations’ data. These ex-ante strategies mitigate risks in the Earth system through precautionary measures unseen with the ex-post approach, in cost-benefit analysis and cost-effective implementations of various Earth system targets. Net-zero CO2 emissions must typically be reached a decade earlier, which can require up to a doubling of the near-term carbon price. Importantly, sustained and possibly century-long net-negative emissions must be planned for, albeit not to overshoot targets as in traditional scenarios but to mitigate long-term Earth system risks. This heightens the challenge faced by humanity to build a safe future within Earth system boundaries. This study develops ex-ante climate strategies that anticipate Earth system uncertainty. Compared with ex-post ones, they adopt precautionary measures to mitigate risks: earlier net-zero emission, higher carbon price, and long-term carbon capture.
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Climate-change mitigation
Projection and prediction
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Humanities and Social Sciences
multidisciplinary
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