The role of negative CO2 emissions for reaching 2 °C-insights from integrated assessment modelling

Climatic Change

Volumn 118, Issue 1, 2013, Pages 15-27

  van Vuuren, Detlef P ^a,b   Deetman, Sebastiaan ^a   van Vliet, Jasper ^a   van den Berg, Maarten ^a   van Ruijven, Bas J ^c   Koelbl, Barbara ^b  

^a PBL NETHERLANDS ENVIRONMENTAL ASSESSMENT AGENCY   (Netherlands)

^b UTRECHT UNIVERSITY   (Netherlands)

^c NATIONAL CENTER FOR ATMOSPHERIC RESEARCH   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CARBON CAPTURE; EMISSION CONTROL; REFORESTATION;

BIO ENERGY; CALCULATIONS AND MODELING; CLIMATE CHANGE MITIGATION; CO2 EMISSIONS; CUMULATIVE EMISSIONS; EMISSION REDUCTION; HIGH PROBABILITY; INTEGRATED ASSESSMENT MODELLING;

CLIMATE CHANGE;

AFFORESTATION; BIOENERGY; CARBON DIOXIDE; CARBON EMISSION; CARBON SEQUESTRATION; CLIMATE CHANGE; EMISSION CONTROL; INTEGRATED APPROACH; PROBABILITY;

EID: 84876695082     PISSN: 01650009     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s10584-012-0680-5     Document Type: Article

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