Drivers of peak warming in a consumption-maximizing world

Nature Climate Change

Volumn 6, Issue 7, 2016, Pages 684-686

  Allen, Myles R ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF OXFORD   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF OXFORD   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CARBON EMISSION; CLIMATE CHANGE; COST ANALYSIS; ECONOMIC GROWTH; EMISSION CONTROL; GLOBAL WARMING; WILLINGNESS TO PAY;

EID: 84975830628     PISSN: 1758678X     EISSN: 17586798     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/nclimate2977     Document Type: Article

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