Reconciling top-down and bottom-up modelling on future bioenergy deployment

Nature Climate Change

Volumn 2, Issue 5, 2012, Pages 320-327

  Creutzig, Felix ^a,b   Popp, Alexander ^b   Plevin, Richard ^c   Luderer, Gunnar ^b   Minx, Jan ^a,b   Edenhofer, Ottmar ^a,b  

^a TECHNISCHE UNIVERSITÄT BERLIN   (Germany)

^b POTSDAM INSTITUTE FOR CLIMATE IMPACT RESEARCH   (Germany)

^c UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BIOENERGY; CLIMATE CHANGE; EMISSION CONTROL; GREENHOUSE GAS; INTERGOVERNMENTAL PANEL ON CLIMATE CHANGE; LIFE CYCLE ANALYSIS; NUMERICAL MODEL; RECONSTRUCTION; RENEWABLE RESOURCE;

EID: 84860300653     PISSN: 1758678X     EISSN: 17586798     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/nclimate1416     Document Type: Review

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