Linking climate change mitigation research to sustainable development

Handbook of Sustainable Development: Second Edition

Volumn , Issue , 2014, Pages 476-499

  Edenhofer, Ottmar ^a,b,c,d   Kadner, Susanne ^b   Von Stechow, Christoph ^d,e   Schwerhoff, Gregor ^e   Luderer, Gunnar ^e  

^a TECHNISCHE UNIVERSITÄT BERLIN   (Germany)

^b Intergovernmental Panel On Climate Change Unit for Greenhouse Gas Inventories   (France)

^c The Potsdam Institute for Climate Impact Research and heads Research Domain III Sustainable Solutions   (Germany)

^d MERCATOR RESEARCH INSTITUTE ON GLOBAL COMMONS AND CLIMATE CHANGE   (Germany)

^e POTSDAM INSTITUTE FOR CLIMATE IMPACT RESEARCH   (Germany)

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DOI: 10.4337/9781782544708.00044     Document Type: Chapter

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