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Michiel Schaeffer is affiliated with Wageningen University & Research in the Netherlands. Their research spans various interdisciplinary fields focusing on climate change, environmental science, and the economics of sustainability.

The scientist's primary fields of study include Environmental Science and Economics, Econometrics and Finance, with a research emphasis that extends into subfields such as Economics and Econometrics, Global and Planetary Change, Environmental Engineering, Renewable Energy, Sustainability and the Environment, and Ecology, Evolution, Behavior and Systematics.

Research topics frequently addressed by Michiel Schaeffer cover Climate Change Policy and Economics, Atmospheric and Environmental Gas Dynamics, Environmental Impact and Sustainability, Climate Change Impacts on Agriculture, Carbon Dioxide Capture Technologies, Climate Variability and Models, and Global Energy and Sustainability Research.

Among their recent publications are the following papers:

  • "Emissions: world has four times the work or one-third of the time" (2020), published in Nature
  • "Indicate separate contributions of long-lived and short-lived greenhouse gases in emission targets" (2022), published in npj Climate and Atmospheric Science
  • "Climate change adaptation costs in developing countries: insights from existing estimates" (2020), published in Climate and Development
  • "Large-Scale Carbon Dioxide Removal to Meet the 1.5°C Limit: Key Governance Gaps, Challenges and Priority Responses" (2021), published in Global Policy
  • "Decarbonization of Australia's Energy System: Integrated Modeling of the Transformation of Electricity, Transportation, and Industrial Sectors" (2020), published in Energies

Frequent publication venues for Michiel Schaeffer include Climate and Development, Nature Communications, Research Square, Nature, and npj Climate and Atmospheric Science.

The scientist has collaborated often with other researchers, including Bill Hare, Florent Baarsch, Matthew Gidden, Robert J. Brecha, and Gaurav Ganti, indicating active engagement in collaborative research networks within the climate and environmental science communities.

Best Publications

  • Energy system transformations for limiting end-of-century warming to below 1.5 °C

    Joeri Rogelj;Joeri Rogelj;Gunnar Luderer;Robert C. Pietzcker;Elmar Kriegler

  • Climate change impacts in Sub-Saharan Africa: from physical changes to their social repercussions

    Olivia Serdeczny;Sophie Adams;Florent Baarsch;Dim Coumou

  • Science and policy characteristics of the Paris Agreement temperature goal

    Carl Friedrich Schleussner;Joeri Rogelj;Joeri Rogelj;Michiel Schaeffer;Tabea Lissner

  • Persistent growth of CO2 emissions and implications for reaching climate targets

    P. Friedlingstein;Robbie M Andrew;J. Rogelj;J. Rogelj;G.P. Peters

  • Differential climate impacts for policy-relevant limits to global warming: the case of 1.5 °C and 2 °C

    Carl-Friedrich Schleussner;Tabea Katharina Lissner;Erich M. Fischer;Jan Wohland

  • Locked into Copenhagen pledges — Implications of short-term emission targets for the cost and feasibility of long-term climate goals

    Keywan Riahi;Keywan Riahi;Elmar Kriegler;Nils Johnson;Christoph Bertram

  • Zero emission targets as long-term global goals for climate protection

    Joeri Rogelj;Joeri Rogelj;Michiel Schaeffer;Malte Meinshausen;Malte Meinshausen;Reto Knutti

  • Differences between carbon budget estimates unravelled

    Joeri Rogelj;Joeri Rogelj;Michiel Schaeffer;Pierre Friedlingstein;Nathan P. Gillett

  • Copenhagen Accord pledges are paltry

    Joeri Rogelj;Julia E. M. S. Nabel;Claudine Chen;William Hare

  • Description of the Earth system model of intermediate complexity LOVECLIM version 1.2

    Hugues Goosse;Viktor Brovkin;Thierry Fichefet;R Haarsma

  • Long-term sea-level rise implied by 1.5 °C and 2 °C warming levels

    Michiel Schaeffer;William Hare;Stefan Rahmstorf;Martin Vermeer

  • Biogeophysical effects of historical land cover changes simulated by six Earth system models of intermediate complexity

    Victor Brovkin;M. Claussen;Emmanuelle Driesschaert;Thierry Fichefet

  • IPCC Fifth Assessment Synthesis Report-Climate Change 2014 Synthesis Report

    Myles R. Allen;Vicente R. Barros;John Broome;Wolfgang Cramer

  • Making or breaking climate targets: : The AMPERE study on staged accession scenarios for climate policy

    Elmar Kriegler;Keywan Riahi;Nico Bauer;Valeria Jana Schwanitz

  • Emissions: world has four times the work or one-third of the time

    Niklas Höhne;Michel den Elzen;Joeri Rogelj;Bert Metz

  • Climate change impacts in Latin America and the Caribbean and their implications for development

    Christopher P.O. Reyer;Sophie Adams;Torsten Albrecht;Florent Baarsch

  • Turn down the heat: climate extremes, regional impacts, and the case for resilience.

    H. J. Schellnhuber;B. Hare;O. Serdeczny;M. Schaeffer

  • The impact of climate change on incomes and convergence in Africa

    Florent Baarsch;Jessie R. Granadillos;William Hare;William Hare;Maria Knaus

  • Disentangling the effects of CO2 and short-lived climate forcer mitigation.

    Joeri Rogelj;Michiel Schaeffer;Malte Meinshausen;Drew T. Shindell

  • WHAT DOES THE 2 C TARGET IMPLY FOR A GLOBAL CLIMATE AGREEMENT IN 2020? THE LIMITS STUDY ON DURBAN PLATFORM SCENARIOS

    Elmar Kriegler;Massimo Tavoni;Tino Aboumahboub;Gunnar Luderer

  • Turn down the heat: confronting the new climate normal

    S. Adams;V. Aich;T. Albrecht;F. Baarsch

  • A short note on integrated assessment modeling approaches: Rejoinder to the review of “Making or breaking climate targets — The AMPERE study on staged accession scenarios for climate policy”

    Elmar Kriegler;Keywan Riahi;Nico Bauer;Valeria Jana Schwanitz;Valeria Jana Schwanitz

Frequent Co-Authors

Joeri Rogelj
Joeri Rogelj Imperial College London
Detlef P. van Vuuren
Detlef P. van Vuuren Utrecht University
Keywan Riahi
Keywan Riahi International Institute for Applied Systems Analysis
Dim Coumou
Dim Coumou Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam
Malte Meinshausen
Malte Meinshausen University of Melbourne
Katja Frieler
Katja Frieler Potsdam Institute for Climate Impact Research
Carl-Friedrich Schleussner
Carl-Friedrich Schleussner Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin
Elmar Kriegler
Elmar Kriegler Potsdam Institute for Climate Impact Research
Volker Krey
Volker Krey International Institute for Applied Systems Analysis
Anja Rammig
Anja Rammig Technical University of Munich

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