Economics of tipping the climate dominoes

Nature Climate Change

Volumn 6, Issue 5, 2016, Pages 514-519

  Lemoine, Derek ^a   Traeger, Christian P ^b,c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ARIZONA   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF OSLO   (Norway)

Author keywords

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Indexed keywords

CLIMATE EFFECT; COST ANALYSIS; ECONOMIC ACTIVITY; EMISSION CONTROL; ENVIRONMENTAL ECONOMICS; ENVIRONMENTAL POLICY; FUTURE PROSPECT; GLOBAL WARMING; GREENHOUSE GAS; POLLUTION TAX;

EID: 84964941377     PISSN: 1758678X     EISSN: 17586798     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/nclimate2902     Document Type: Article

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