Near-term limits to mitigation: Challenges arising from contrary mitigation effects from indirect land-use change and sulfur emissions

Energy Economics

Volumn 42, Issue , 2014, Pages 233-239

  Calvin, Katherine ^a   Wise, Marshall ^a   Clarke, Leon ^a   Edmonds, James ^a   Jones, Andrew ^b   Thomson, Allison ^a  

^a PACIFIC NORTHWEST NATIONAL LABORATORY   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

Indirect land use change emissions; Integrated Assessment Modeling

Indexed keywords

EID: 84894327367     PISSN: 01409883     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.eneco.2013.09.026     Document Type: Article

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