Low-carbon societies: A challenging transition for an attractive future

Climate Policy

Volumn 8, Issue 6, 2008, Pages 607-612

  Hourcade, Jean Charles ^a   Crassous, Renaud ^a,b  

^a Centre International de Recherche sur lEnvironnement et le Developpement   (France)

^b AGROPARISTECH   (France)

Author keywords

Carbon pricing; Climate change; Energy models; Low Carbon Society; Scenario modelling; Technological change; Transition path

Indexed keywords

CARBON DIOXIDE; CARBON EMISSION; CLIMATE CHANGE; ENVIRONMENTAL POLICY; MODELING; TECHNOLOGICAL CHANGE;

EID: 63449109072     PISSN: 14693062     EISSN: 17527457     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3763/cpol.2008.0566     Document Type: Article

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