Analysis of the Copenhagen Accord pledges and its global climatic impacts- a snapshot of dissonant ambitions

Environmental Research Letters

Volumn 5, Issue 3, 2010, Pages

  Rogelj, Joeri ^a,b   Chen, Claudine ^a   Nabel, Julia ^a,c   MacEy, Kirsten ^d   Hare, William ^a,d   Schaeffer, Michiel ^d,e   Markmann, Kathleen ^a   Hohne, Niklas ^f   Andersen, Katrine Krogh ^g   Meinshausen, Malte ^a  

^a POTSDAM INSTITUTE FOR CLIMATE IMPACT RESEARCH   (Germany)

^b Land Climate Dynamics Group   (Switzerland)

^c SWISS FEDERAL RESEARCH INSTITUTE WSL   (Switzerland)

^d Climate Analytics GmbH   (Germany)

^e WAGENINGEN UNIVERSITY   (Netherlands)

^f Ecofys Germany GmbH   (Germany)

^g DANISH METEOROLOGICAL INSTITUTE   (Denmark)

Author keywords

Climate change; Climate negotiations; Copenhagen Accord; Global warming; Greenhouse gas emissions

Indexed keywords

CLIMATE CHANGE; EMISSION CONTROL; GAS EMISSIONS; GLOBAL WARMING; GREENHOUSE GASES;

CLIMATE NEGOTIATIONS; COPENHAGEN ACCORDS; EMISSION ALLOWANCES; EQUIVALENT CONCENTRATIONS; GLOBAL TEMPERATURES; PROBABILISTIC ESTIMATES; REDUCED COMPLEXITY; SIGNIFICANT DETERIORATIONS;

CARBON DIOXIDE;

EID: 77958616336     PISSN: None     EISSN: 17489326     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1088/1748-9326/5/3/034013     Document Type: Article

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