Decarbonising electricity supply: Is climate change mitigation going to be carried out at the expense of other environmental impacts?

Sustainable Production and Consumption

Volumn 1, Issue , 2015, Pages 1-21

  Kouloumpis, Victor ^a   Stamford, Laurence ^a   Azapagic, Adisa ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MANCHESTER   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Climate change; Decarbonisation; Electricity; Environmental impacts; Life cycle assessment; Scenario analysis

Indexed keywords

EID: 84944036035     PISSN: None     EISSN: 23525509     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.spc.2015.04.001     Document Type: Article

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