Metric of carbon equity: Carbon Gini index based on historical cumulative emission per capita

Advances in Climate Change Research

Volumn 2, Issue 3, 2011, Pages 134-140

  Teng, Fei ^a   He, Jiankun ^a   Pan, Xunzhang ^a   Zhang, Chi ^a  

^a TSINGHUA UNIVERSITY   (China)

Author keywords

Carbon equity; Carbon Gini index; Climate change; Cumulative emission per capita; Long term mitigation goal

Indexed keywords

EID: 84887025564     PISSN: 16749278     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3724/SP.J.1248.2011.00134     Document Type: Article

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