Climate change mitigation strategies in carbon-intensive firms

Journal of Cleaner Production

Volumn 112, Issue , 2016, Pages 4132-4143

  Cadez, Simon ^a   Czerny, Albert ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF LJUBLJANA   (Slovenia)

^b RWTH AACHEN UNIVERSITY   (Germany)

Author keywords

Carbon intensive firms; Climate change mitigation; CO2 emissions; EU ETS; Strategy; Sustainability

Indexed keywords

EMISSION CONTROL; GAS EMISSIONS; SUSTAINABLE DEVELOPMENT;

CARBON REDUCTION; CLIMATE CHANGE MITIGATION; COMBUSTION EMISSIONS; CORPORATE STRATEGIES; EMISSIONS TRADING; EU COUNTRIES; PROCESS EMISSIONS; STRATEGY;

CLIMATE CHANGE;

EID: 84959574451     PISSN: 09596526     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.jclepro.2015.07.099     Document Type: Article

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