Beyond 'dangerous' climate change: Emission scenarios for a new world

Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society A: Mathematical, Physical and Engineering Sciences

Volumn 369, Issue 1934, 2011, Pages 20-44

  Anderson, Kevin ^a,c   Bows, Alice ^b  

^a TYNDALL CENTRE FOR CLIMATE CHANGE RESEARCH   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF MANCHESTER   (United Kingdom)

^c UNIVERSITY OF EAST ANGLIA   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Annex 1; Climate policy; Cumulative emissions; Emission pathways; Emission scenarios; Non Annex 1

Indexed keywords

ANNEX 1; CLIMATE POLICY; CUMULATIVE EMISSIONS; EMISSION PATHWAYS; EMISSION SCENARIO; NON-ANNEX 1;

CLIMATE CHANGE;

CARBON DIOXIDE;

AGRICULTURE; ANIMAL; ARTICLE; ASTRONOMY; CHEMISTRY; CLIMATE CHANGE; ECOLOGY; ENVIRONMENTAL PROTECTION; GREENHOUSE EFFECT; HUMAN; INTERNATIONAL COOPERATION; POLICY; RESEARCH; TEMPERATURE; THEORETICAL MODEL; WATER SUPPLY;

AGRICULTURE; ANIMALS; CARBON DIOXIDE; CLIMATE CHANGE; CONSERVATION OF NATURAL RESOURCES; EARTH (PLANET); ECOLOGY; GLOBAL WARMING; HUMANS; INTERNATIONAL COOPERATION; MODELS, THEORETICAL; PUBLIC POLICY; RESEARCH; TEMPERATURE; WATER SUPPLY;

EID: 79251470435     PISSN: 1364503X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1098/rsta.2010.0290     Document Type: Conference Paper

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