Three key elements of a post-2012 international climate policy architecture

Review of Environmental Economics and Policy

Volumn 6, Issue 1, 2012, Pages 65-85

  Olmstead, Sheila M ^b   Stavins, Robert N ^a  

^a HARVARD UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b NONE

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CLIMATE CHANGE; DEVELOPING WORLD; ECONOMIC INSTRUMENT; ENVIRONMENTAL POLICY; GLOBAL CLIMATE; INTERNATIONAL LAW; KYOTO PROTOCOL;

EID: 84856204703     PISSN: 17506816     EISSN: 17506824     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/reep/rer018     Document Type: Article

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