Failure to achieve stringent carbon reduction targets in a second-best policy world

Climatic Change

Volumn 113, Issue 2, 2012, Pages 121-139

  Strachan, Neil ^a   Usher, Will ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANALYTICAL EFFORTS; BEHAVIOURAL CHANGES; CARBON REDUCTION; COMMON MODE; EFFICIENCY MEASURE; END-USE SECTORS; ENERGY SYSTEMS; FIRST-BEST POLICY; GREENHOUSE GAS REDUCTIONS; HIGH COSTS; LOW-CARBON ENERGY SYSTEMS; MITIGATION POLICIES; MODELLING STUDIES; NATIONAL LEVEL; OFFSHORE WIND RESOURCES; POLICY MAKERS; RESOURCE AVAILABILITY; SECOND-BEST POLICY; SYSTEMATIC ANALYSIS; TECHNICAL CLASSIFICATION;

ENERGY EFFICIENCY; ENERGY POLICY; GREENHOUSE GASES; WIND POWER;

CARBON DIOXIDE;

CARBON EMISSION; EMISSION CONTROL; ENERGY EFFICIENCY; ENERGY POLICY; GREENHOUSE GAS; GROSS DOMESTIC PRODUCT; POLICY IMPLEMENTATION; POLLUTION POLICY; WIND POWER;

UNITED KINGDOM;

EID: 84862116938     PISSN: 01650009     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s10584-011-0267-6     Document Type: Article

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