National post-2020 greenhouse gas targets and diversity-aware leadership

Nature Climate Change

Volumn 5, Issue 12, 2015, Pages 1098-1106

  Meinshausen, Malte ^a,b   Jeffery, Louise ^b   Guetschow, Johannes ^b   Robiou Du Pont, Yann ^a   Rogelj, Joeri ^c,d   Schaeffer, Michiel ^e   Höhne, Niklas ^f,g   Den Elzen, Michel ^h   Oberthür, Sebastian ⁱ   Meinshausen, Nicolai ^j  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MELBOURNE   (Australia)

^b POTSDAM INSTITUTE FOR CLIMATE IMPACT RESEARCH   (Germany)

^c INTERNATIONAL INSTITUTE FOR APPLIED SYSTEMS ANALYSIS   (Austria)

^d ETH Zurich   (Switzerland)

^e CLIMATE ANALYTICS   (Germany)

^f New Climate Institute   (Germany)

^g WAGENINGEN UNIVERSITY   (Netherlands)

^h PBL NETHERLANDS ENVIRONMENTAL ASSESSMENT AGENCY   (Netherlands)

ⁱ VRIJE UNIVERSITEIT BRUSSEL   (Belgium)

^j ETH ZURICH   (Switzerland)

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Author keywords

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Indexed keywords

DATABASE; ENVIRONMENTAL LEGISLATION; ENVIRONMENTAL PLANNING; ENVIRONMENTAL POLICY; GLOBAL CLIMATE; GREENHOUSE GAS; INTERNATIONAL AGREEMENT; LEADERSHIP; TARGETING; WARMING;

CHINA; UNITED STATES;

EID: 84948151314     PISSN: 1758678X     EISSN: 17586798     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/nclimate2826     Document Type: Article

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