Big literature and assessements

The 4V's of big literature. The varying challenges of assessing large, rapidly growing and diverse scientific literatures. Currently unpublished.

The Pragmatic Enlightened Model (PEM). PEM is a form of science-policy deliberation that takes place during assessments. It is a process designed to arrive at socially mandated, but scientifically informed, pathways towards climate stabilisation. Unpublished version based on Edenhofer and Kowarsch 2015.

Stages of Evidence Synthesis. Evidence synthesis approaches apply formal methodologies to integrate varying research results, producing a systematic review with minimal biases. Currently unpublished.

Human well-being and political economy

Carbon emissions, human well-being and Goldemberg's Corner. Emissions and human well-being outcomes are tightly coupled up to approximately 3t CO2/capita. Beyond this threshold the relationship saturates, with increasing energy and emissions delivering only marginal gains in life expectancy. This relationship is similar across many variations of environmental pressure and well-being outcomes.

Well-being theories and applications. Different conceptualisations of well-being hold varying claims regarding the utility and context of consumption. These subsequently imply different strategies to address climate change. Published in Lamb & Steinberger 2017.

Political economic constraints to climate policy. Countries face different architectures of constraint in advancing climate policies. These include issues such as corruption, low public trust, exposure to vested interests, and low public awareness of climate change. Published in Lamb & Minx 2020.

Negative emissions

Negative emissions technologies (NETs): mitigation or adaptation? NETs address fundamental causes of climate change (heat trapping greenhouse gases), unlike solar radiation management, with addresses the consequences and impacts of climate change. Conceptually, NETs sit closer to mitigation strategies. Published in Minx, Lamb et al. 2018.

The costs, potentials and side-effects of negative emissions technologies (NETs). This figure synthesizes a comprehensive and systematic assessment of NETs along multiple dimensions. It is published in Fuss, Lamb et al. 2018 and was reproduced in Scientific American.

Technology analogues for negative emissions upscaling. Direct air capture will reach widespread adoption by the end of the century, if it follows a similar innovation timeline to solar PV. Published in the Washington Post.