Response to Comments on "Using Attributional Life Cycle Assessment to Estimate Climate-Change Mitigation"

Journal of Industrial Ecology

Volumn 18, Issue 3, 2014, Pages 468-470

  Plevin, Richard ^a   Delucchi, Mark ^a   Creutzig, Felix ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

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

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EID: 84902320519     PISSN: 10881980     EISSN: 15309290     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/jiec.12153     Document Type: Letter

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