Preparing US community greenhouse gas inventories for climate action plans

Environmental Research Letters

Volumn 6, Issue 3, 2011, Pages

  Blackhurst, Michael ^a   Scott Matthews, H ^b   Sharrard, Aurora L ^c   Hendrickson, Chris T ^b   Azevedo, Ins Lima ^b  

^a The University of Texas at Austin   (United States)

^b CARNEGIE MELLON UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c Department of Engineering and Public Policy Carnegie Mellon University 119 Porter Hall ^*  (United States)

Author keywords

climate action plans; community greenhouse gas inventories; uncertainty

Indexed keywords

EID: 80053473718     PISSN: None     EISSN: 17489326     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1088/1748-9326/6/3/034003     Document Type: Article

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