Mapping the climate change challenge

Nature Climate Change

Volumn 6, Issue 7, 2016, Pages 663-668

  Hallegatte, Stephane ^a   Rogelj, Joeri ^b,c   Allen, Myles ^d   Clarke, Leon ^e   Edenhofer, Ottmar ^f,g,h   Field, Christopher B ^i,j   Friedlingstein, Pierre ^k   Van Kesteren, Line ^l   Knutti, Reto ^c   Mach, Katharine J ^j   Mastrandrea, Michael ^j   Michel, Adrien ^l,n   Minx, Jan ^f,h,o   Oppenheimer, Michael ^p   Plattner, Gian Kasper ^c,m   Riahi, Keywan ^b,q   Schaeffer, Michiel ^r,s   Stocker, Thomas F ^m,n   Van Vuuren, Detlef P ^l,t  

^a WORLD BANK   (United States)

^b INTERNATIONAL INSTITUTE FOR APPLIED SYSTEMS ANALYSIS   (Austria)

^c Land Climate Dynamics Group   (Switzerland)

^d UNIVERSITY OF OXFORD   (United Kingdom)

^e PACIFIC NORTHWEST NATIONAL LABORATORY   (United States)

^f POTSDAM INSTITUTE FOR CLIMATE IMPACT RESEARCH   (Germany)

^g TECHNISCHE UNIVERSITÄT BERLIN   (Germany)

^h MERCATOR RESEARCH INSTITUTE ON GLOBAL COMMONS AND CLIMATE CHANGE   (Germany)

ⁱ STANFORD UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^j GEOPHYSICAL LABORATORY   (United States)

^k UNIVERSITY OF EXETER   (United Kingdom)

^l PBL NETHERLANDS ENVIRONMENTAL ASSESSMENT AGENCY   (Netherlands)

^m SWISS FEDERAL RESEARCH INSTITUTE WSL   (Switzerland)

ⁿ UNIVERSITY OF BERN   (Switzerland)

^o HERTIE SCHOOL OF GOVERNANCE   (Germany)

^p PRINCETON UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^q GRAZ UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (Austria)

^r CLIMATE ANALYTICS   (Germany)

^s WAGENINGEN UNIVERSITY   (Netherlands)

^t UTRECHT UNIVERSITY   (Netherlands)

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Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CLIMATE CHANGE; COST ANALYSIS; DECISION MAKING; ENVIRONMENTAL POLICY; GLOBAL WARMING; UNITED NATIONS FRAMEWORK CONVENTION ON CLIMATE CHANGE;

EID: 84975873234     PISSN: 1758678X     EISSN: 17586798     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/nclimate3057     Document Type: Review

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