Allocating a 2°C cumulative carbon budget to countries

Environmental Research Letters

Volumn 10, Issue 7, 2015, Pages

  Gignac, Renaud ^a   Matthews, H Damon ^a  

^a Civil and Environmental Engineering   (Canada)

Author keywords

Carbon budget; Carbon debts; Contraction and convergence; Cumulative emissions; Emissions allocation

Indexed keywords

CARBON DIOXIDE;

CARBON BUDGETS; CLIMATE MITIGATIONS; CUMULATIVE EMISSIONS; GLOBAL TEMPERATURES; HISTORICAL EMISSIONS; POTENTIAL UTILITY; TOTAL EMISSIONS; WORLD POPULATION;

BUDGET CONTROL;

CARBON BUDGET; CARBON DIOXIDE; CARBON EMISSION; ESTIMATION METHOD; FUTURE PROSPECT; GLOBAL WARMING; POLLUTION POLICY; TEMPERATURE GRADIENT;

EID: 84982055305     PISSN: 17489318     EISSN: 17489326     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1088/1748-9326/10/7/075004     Document Type: Article

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