If climate action becomes urgent: The importance of response times for various climate strategies

Climatic Change

Volumn 121, Issue 3, 2013, Pages 473-486

  van Vuuren, Detlef P ^a,b,c   Stehfest, Elke ^a  

^a PBL NETHERLANDS ENVIRONMENTAL ASSESSMENT AGENCY   (Netherlands)

^b UTRECHT UNIVERSITY   (Netherlands)

^c Netherlands Environmental Assesment Agency   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

EMISSION REDUCTION; EXTREME TEMPERATURES; OCEAN ACIDIFICATIONS; PHYSICAL RESPONSE; POLICY STRATEGIES; RADIATION MANAGEMENT; RAPID RESPONSE; REDUCTION RATE;

CLIMATE CHANGE; SUN;

EMISSION CONTROL;

ACIDIFICATION; CLIMATE CHANGE; ENVIRONMENTAL ECONOMICS; ENVIRONMENTAL POLICY; SOLAR RADIATION; UNCERTAINTY ANALYSIS;

EID: 84888134292     PISSN: 01650009     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s10584-013-0769-5     Document Type: Article

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