Emerging Markets and Climate Change: Mexican Stand-off or Low-carbon Race?

Climate Change and Common Sense : Essays in Honour of Tom Schelling

Volumn , Issue , 2012, Pages

  Frame, David J ^a,b,c   Hepburn, Cameron J ^d,e  

^a Smith School of Enterprise and the Environment   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF OXFORD   (United Kingdom)

^c Jesus and Trinity Colleges   (United Kingdom)

^d LONDON SCHOOL OF ECONOMICS   (United Kingdom)

^e NEW COLLEGE   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Climate change; Equity; Greenhouse gas emissions

Indexed keywords

EID: 84919623133     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book    
DOI: 10.1093/acprof:oso/9780199692873.003.0009     Document Type: Chapter

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