Potential scale-related problems in estimating the costs of CO2 mitigation policies

Climatic Change

Volumn 44, Issue 3, 2000, Pages 331-349

  Green, Christopher ^a  

^a MCGILL UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

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Indexed keywords

CARBON EMISSION; CLIMATE CHANGE; EMISSION CONTROL; ENERGY RESOURCE;

EID: 0033968080     PISSN: 01650009     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1023/A:1005597112439     Document Type: Article

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