Optimal CO2 mitigation under damage risk valuation

Nature Climate Change

Volumn 4, Issue 7, 2014, Pages 631-636

  Crost, Benjamin ^a   Traeger, Christian P ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF COLORADO   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

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Indexed keywords

CARBON DIOXIDE; CARBON EMISSION; CLIMATE CHANGE; ENVIRONMENTAL ECONOMICS; POLLUTION TAX; UNCERTAINTY ANALYSIS;

UNITED STATES;

EID: 84903455569     PISSN: 1758678X     EISSN: 17586798     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/nclimate2249     Document Type: Article

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