Implementing conservativeness in REDD+ is realistic and useful to address the most uncertain estimates

Climatic Change

Volumn 119, Issue 2, 2013, Pages 269-275

  Grassi, Giacomo ^a   Federici, Sandro ^a   Achard, Frédéric ^a  

^a JOINT RESEARCH CENTRE   (Italy)

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EID: 84879182263     PISSN: 01650009     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s10584-013-0780-x     Document Type: Note

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