Zero emission targets as long-term global goals for climate protection

Environmental Research Letters

Volumn 10, Issue 10, 2015, Pages

  Rogelj, Joeri ^a,b   Schaeffer, Michiel ^c,d   Meinshausen, Malte ^e,f   Knutti, Reto ^b   Alcamo, Joseph ^g   Riahi, Keywan ^a,h   Hare, William ^c  

^a INTERNATIONAL INSTITUTE FOR APPLIED SYSTEMS ANALYSIS   (Austria)

^b Land Climate Dynamics Group   (Switzerland)

^c CLIMATE ANALYTICS   (Germany)

^d WAGENINGEN UNIVERSITY   (Netherlands)

^e UNIVERSITY OF MELBOURNE   (Australia)

^f POTSDAM INSTITUTE FOR CLIMATE IMPACT RESEARCH   (Germany)

^g UNIVERSITY OF KASSEL   (Germany)

^h GRAZ UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (Austria)

Author keywords

carbon dioxide; climate change; climate policy; climate stabilization; global goal; greenhouse gases; UNFCCC

Indexed keywords

CARBON DIOXIDE; CLIMATE CHANGE; GAS EMISSIONS; GLOBAL WARMING; STABILIZATION;

CARBON NEUTRALITIES; CLIMATE POLICY; CLIMATE PROTECTION; CLIMATE STABILIZATION; GLOBAL GOAL; GLOBAL TEMPERATURES; GLOBAL-MEAN TEMPERATURE; UNFCCC;

GREENHOUSE GASES;

BENCHMARKING; CARBON DIOXIDE; CLIMATE CHANGE; EMISSION; EMISSION INVENTORY; ENVIRONMENTAL POLICY; GLOBAL CLIMATE; GLOBAL WARMING; GREENHOUSE GAS; LONG-TERM CHANGE; POLICY MAKING; STABILIZATION; UNITED NATIONS FRAMEWORK CONVENTION ON CLIMATE CHANGE;

EID: 84959434077     PISSN: 17489318     EISSN: 17489326     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1088/1748-9326/10/10/105007     Document Type: Article

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