Economic mitigation challenges: How further delay closes the door for achieving climate targets

Environmental Research Letters

Volumn 8, Issue 3, 2013, Pages

  Luderer, Gunnar ^a   Pietzcker, Robert C ^a   Bertram, Christoph ^a   Kriegler, Elmar ^a   Meinshausen, Malte ^a,b   Edenhofer, Ottmar ^a,c,d  

^a POTSDAM INSTITUTE FOR CLIMATE IMPACT RESEARCH   (Germany)

^b UNIVERSITY OF MELBOURNE   (Australia)

^c TECHNISCHE UNIVERSITÄT BERLIN   (Germany)

^d MERCATOR RESEARCH INSTITUTE ON GLOBAL COMMONS AND CLIMATE CHANGE   (Germany)

Author keywords

2 C target; climate change mitigation; delayed climate policy; low carbon technologies

Indexed keywords

CARBON CAPTURE; CIVIL AVIATION; GLOBAL WARMING;

CARBON CAPTURE AND STORAGE; CLIMATE CHANGE MITIGATION; CLIMATE MITIGATIONS; CLIMATE POLICY; DANGEROUS CLIMATE CHANGES; EMISSIONS REDUCTION; INTERNATIONAL COMMUNITY; LOW-CARBON TECHNOLOGIES;

ECONOMIC AND SOCIAL EFFECTS;

CLIMATE MODELING; ECONOMIC ANALYSIS; EMISSION CONTROL; ENVIRONMENTAL ECONOMICS; ENVIRONMENTAL POLICY; GLOBAL WARMING; TEMPERATURE EFFECT;

EID: 84885460024     PISSN: None     EISSN: 17489326     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1088/1748-9326/8/3/034033     Document Type: Article

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