Green growth in the post-Copenhagen climate

Energy Policy

Volumn 39, Issue 11, 2011, Pages 7165-7173

  Sterner, Thomas ^a   Damon, Maria ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF GOTHENBURG   (Sweden)

^b NEW YORK UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Climate change; Fairness; Green growth

Indexed keywords

ALTERNATIVE PATH; BIO-ENERGY; CLIMATE CHANGE POLICIES; COPENHAGEN; ENVIRONMENTAL PROBLEMS; FAIRNESS; GLOBAL CLIMATE CHANGES; GLOBAL CLIMATES; GLOBAL SCALE; GREEN GROWTH; MAGIC BULLETS; POLICY INSTRUMENTS; WORLD ECONOMY;

COORDINATION REACTIONS; FOSSIL FUELS;

CLIMATE CHANGE;

ALTERNATIVE ENERGY; BIOENERGY; CLIMATE CHANGE; DEMAND ANALYSIS; ENERGY EFFICIENCY; ENERGY RESOURCE; ENVIRONMENTAL POLICY; FOSSIL FUEL; GLOBAL PERSPECTIVE; NUCLEAR POWER; POLICY APPROACH; POLICY IMPLEMENTATION; UNITED NATIONS FRAMEWORK CONVENTION ON CLIMATE CHANGE;

COPENHAGEN [(CTY) HOVEDSTADEN]; DENMARK; HOVEDSTADEN;

EID: 80054855750     PISSN: 03014215     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.enpol.2011.08.036     Document Type: Article

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