Arctic feedbacks will accelerate climate change, increasing its global impacts, and possibly jeopardising mitigation efforts. For example, the permafrost carbon feedback releases CO2 and methane from thawing permafrost and the sea ice-albedo feedback increases solar absorption in the Arctic Ocean. The PAGE Integrated Assessment Model allows the global impacts of climate change to be estimated, and policies to tackle climate change to be found. Using the PAGE IAM, the global impacts of Arctic climate feedbacks are calculated, and the implications for climate policy are described..
