Roberto Schaeffer

TL;DR: Substantial enhancement or over-delivery on current INDCs by additional national, sub-national and non-state actions is required to maintain a reasonable chance of meeting the target of keeping warming well below 2 degrees Celsius.

TL;DR: In this paper, the authors focus on the importance of income growth in a cross-country analysis of sustainable household consumption from a global perspective, using per capita energy requirements as an indicator of environmental pressure.

TL;DR: In this article, the authors present a review of the impacts that climate change may have throughout the energy chain and identify current knowledge gaps and areas for future research development, concluding that one of the greatest challenges is how to assess impacts which may occur as a consequence of the projected increase in the intensity of extreme weather events.

TL;DR: In this paper, a commodity-by-industry IO model was applied to the Brazilian economy to evaluate the total impacts of international trade on its energy use and CO2 emissions.

TL;DR: In this article, the authors analyze the current state of the debate over competition for land use, by means of an index of the main arguments in favor and against the production of liquid biofuels and the impacts on food production.