A compromise to break the climate impasse

Nature Climate Change

Volumn 4, Issue 7, 2014, Pages 543-549

  Grasso, Marco ^a   Roberts, Timmons ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MILANO BICOCCA   (Italy)

^b BROWN UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CARBON CYCLE; CLIMATE CHANGE; DEVELOPING WORLD; EMISSION CONTROL; ENVIRONMENTAL POLICY; GLOBAL CLIMATE;

EID: 84903465406     PISSN: 1758678X     EISSN: 17586798     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/nclimate2259     Document Type: Review

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