National contributions for decarbonizing the world economy in line with the G7 agreement

Environmental Research Letters

Volumn 11, Issue 5, 2016, Pages

  Du Pont, Yann Robiou ^a   Jeffery, M Louise ^b   Gütschow, Johannes ^b   Christoff, Peter ^a   Meinshausen, Malte ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MELBOURNE   (Australia)

^b POTSDAM INSTITUTE FOR CLIMATE IMPACT RESEARCH   (Germany)

Author keywords

burden sharing; climate change mitigation; emissions allocation; equity; G7; mitigation pathways; UNFCCC

Indexed keywords

GLOBAL WARMING; GREENHOUSE GASES;

BURDEN SHARING; CLIMATE CHANGE MITIGATION; EQUITY; MITIGATION PATHWAYS; UNFCCC;

GAS EMISSIONS;

CARBON DIOXIDE; CARBON EMISSION; CLIMATE CHANGE; FUTURE PROSPECT; GLOBAL ECONOMY; GLOBAL WARMING; GREENHOUSE GAS; INTEGRATED APPROACH; INTERGOVERNMENTAL PANEL ON CLIMATE CHANGE; MITIGATION; POLLUTION POLICY; TEMPERATURE EFFECT;

BRAZIL; CHINA; FRANCE; ILE DE FRANCE; INDIA; PARIS; RUSSIAN FEDERATION; VILLE DE PARIS;

EID: 84973351695     PISSN: 17489318     EISSN: 17489326     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1088/1748-9326/11/5/054005     Document Type: Article

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