Seth Wynes and Kimberly A. Nicholas (Lund University, University of British Columbia); published in Environmental Research Letters (IOP Publishing)

The climate mitigation gap (Wynes & Nicholas 2017), with comments and replies

Annual emission reductions per person (tonnes of CO2-equivalent) for lifestyle actions in developed countries, based on 148 scenarios from 39 sources, compared with the actions recommended by ten Canadian high-school science textbooks and by government resources from the EU, USA, Canada and Australia. The four high-impact actions in the abstract: one fewer child (58.6 t per year, an average for developed countries), living car-free (2.4 t per year), avoiding air travel (1.6 t per round-trip transatlantic flight) and a plant-based diet (0.8 t per year). Published with a comment (2018) disputing the child figure's accounting, a corrigendum to that comment, a second comment on how the recommendations were framed, and the authors' replies to both.

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Credit we give: Wynes, S. & Nicholas, K. A. (2017). The climate mitigation gap: education and government recommendations miss the most effective individual actions. Environmental Research Letters 12, 074024. doi:10.1088/1748-9326/aa7541. CC BY 3.0.
Notice: Comment: van Basshuysen, P. & Brandstedt, E. (2018), Environ. Res. Lett. 13, 048001, doi:10.1088/1748-9326/aab213 (corrigendum 13, 069501, doi:10.1088/1748-9326/aac2ee). Reply: Wynes, S. & Nicholas, K. A. (2018), Environ. Res. Lett. 13, 048002, doi:10.1088/1748-9326/aab210. Second comment: Laycock Pedersen, R. & Lam, D. P. M. (2018), Environ. Res. Lett. 13, 068001, doi:10.1088/1748-9326/aac9d0. Reply: Wynes, S. & Nicholas, K. A. (2018), Environ. Res. Lett. 13, 068002, doi:10.1088/1748-9326/aac9cf. All CC BY 3.0.
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Programme: Published 12 July 2017; the comments, corrigendum and replies appeared in 2018 (volume 13). One-off papers with no planned update.
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