Labor's greenhouse aspirations

People and Place

Volumn 16, Issue 2, 2008, Pages 1-15

  Birrell, Bob ^a   Healy, Ernest ^a  

^a MONASH UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

EMISSION CONTROL; EMISSIONS TRADING; ENVIRONMENTAL PLANNING; GREENHOUSE GAS; POPULATION GROWTH;

AUSTRALASIA; AUSTRALIA;

EID: 49249100301     PISSN: 10394788     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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6. 2 levels at 550 parts per million.
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40. ibid.
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