The budget approach: A framework for a global transformation toward a low-carbon economy

Journal of Renewable and Sustainable Energy

Volumn 2, Issue 3, 2010, Pages

  Messner, Dirk ^a   Schellnhuber, John ^b   Rahmstorf, Stefan ^b   Klingenfeld, Daniel ^b  

^a GERMAN DEVELOPMENT INSTITUTE   (Germany)

^b POTSDAM INSTITUTE FOR CLIMATE IMPACT RESEARCH   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADVISORY COUNCIL; CLIMATE PROTECTION; CLIMATE REGIME; CLIMATE SCIENCE; CLIMATE SYSTEM; COPENHAGEN; ECONOMIC GROWTHS; EMERGING ECONOMIES; EMISSION ALLOWANCES; FUNDAMENTAL CONCEPTS; GLOBAL BUDGET; GLOBAL CHANGE; GLOBAL CLIMATES; GLOBAL ECONOMIES; GLOBAL TRANSFORMATION; INDUSTRIALIZED COUNTRIES; INSTITUTIONAL DESIGN; LOW CARBON ECONOMY; LOW-CARBON; STATE OF THE ART; TIME PRESSURES;

BUDGET CONTROL; CARBON DIOXIDE; ENVIRONMENTAL MANAGEMENT; FOSSIL FUELS; GLOBAL WARMING; SOCIETIES AND INSTITUTIONS;

ECONOMICS;

EID: 79952611995     PISSN: 19417012     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1063/1.3318695     Document Type: Article

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