Midway toward the 2 degree target: Adequacy and fairness of the Cancún pledges

Applied Energy

Volumn 112, Issue , 2013, Pages 856-865

  Ha, Yuejiao ^a   Teng, Fei ^a  

^a TSINGHUA UNIVERSITY   (China)

Author keywords

Carbon Gini coefficient; Climate change; Downscaling algorithms; Global social economic scenarios; Temperature increase

Indexed keywords

CARBON; DEVELOPING COUNTRIES; GREENHOUSE GASES;

COPENHAGEN ACCORDS; DEVELOPED COUNTRIES; DOWN-SCALING; GINI COEFFICIENTS; INTEGRATED ASSESSMENT MODELS; REGIONAL BUSINESS; SOCIAL-ECONOMIC; TEMPERATURE INCREASE;

CLIMATE CHANGE;

ALGORITHM; ASSESSMENT METHOD; ATMOSPHERIC POLLUTION; CLIMATE CHANGE; DEVELOPING WORLD; DOWNSCALING; ECONOMIC ANALYSIS; EMISSION; GREENHOUSE GAS; NUMERICAL MODEL; SOCIOECONOMIC STATUS; TEMPERATURE EFFECT;

DENMARK; HOVEDSTADEN; KOBENHAVN [(RGG) HOVEDSTADEN];

EID: 84884202035     PISSN: 03062619     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.apenergy.2013.05.021     Document Type: Article

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