Policy Update: Multicomponent climate policy: Why do emission metrics matter?

Carbon Management

Volumn 1, Issue 2, 2010, Pages 191-197

  Tanaka, Katsumasa ^a   Peters, Glen P ^a   Fuglestvedt, Jan S ^a  

^a CENTER FOR INTERNATIONAL CLIMATE AND ENVIRONMENTAL RESEARCH OSLO CICERO   (Norway)

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EID: 79955042177     PISSN: 17583004     EISSN: 17583012     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.4155/cmt.10.28     Document Type: Article

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