Mid- and long-term climate projections for fragmented and delayed-action scenarios

Technological Forecasting and Social Change

Volumn 90, Issue PA, 2015, Pages 257-268

  Schaeffer, Michiel ^a,b   Gohar, Laila ^c   Kriegler, Elmar ^d   Lowe, Jason ^c   Riahi, Keywan ^e,f   van Vuuren, Detlef ^g,h  

^a CLIMATE ANALYTICS   (Germany)

^b WAGENINGEN UNIVERSITY   (Netherlands)

^c MET OFFICE   (United Kingdom)

^d POTSDAM INSTITUTE FOR CLIMATE IMPACT RESEARCH   (Germany)

^e INTERNATIONAL INSTITUTE FOR APPLIED SYSTEMS ANALYSIS   (Austria)

^f GRAZ UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (Austria)

^g PBL NETHERLANDS ENVIRONMENTAL ASSESSMENT AGENCY   (Netherlands)

^h UTRECHT UNIVERSITY   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

AMPERE; Climate modeling; Climate policy; Copenhagen Pledges; Greenhouse gas emissions; Integrated assessment

Indexed keywords

CLIMATE MODELS; EMISSION CONTROL; GREENHOUSE GASES; STABILIZATION;

AMPERE; CLIMATE POLICY; COPENHAGEN; EMISSION REDUCTION; ENERGY-ECONOMIC MODEL; INTEGRATED ASSESSMENT; INTERNATIONAL POLICIES; SCALE TRANSFORMATION;

GAS EMISSIONS;

CARBON EMISSION; CLIMATE MODELING; CLIMATE PREDICTION; EMISSION CONTROL; ENVIRONMENTAL POLICY; GREENHOUSE GAS;

EID: 84916930829     PISSN: 00401625     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.techfore.2013.09.013     Document Type: Article

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