The Paris Agreement: resolving the inconsistency between global goals and national contributions

Climate Policy

Volumn 17, Issue 1, 2017, Pages 16-32

  Höhne, Niklas ^a,b   Kuramochi, Takeshi ^a   Warnecke, Carsten ^a   Röser, Frauke ^a   Fekete, Hanna ^a   Hagemann, Markus ^a,c   Day, Thomas ^a   Tewari, Ritika ^a   Kurdziel, Marie ^a   Sterl, Sebastian ^a   Gonzales, Sofia ^a  

^a New Climate Institute   (Germany)

^b WAGENINGEN UNIVERSITY   (Netherlands)

^c UTRECHT UNIVERSITY   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

ambition; climate change; INDCs; mitigation; Paris Agreement; UNFCCC

Indexed keywords

CLIMATE CHANGE; ENVIRONMENTAL POLICY; INTERNATIONAL AGREEMENT; MITIGATION; POLICY IMPLEMENTATION; POLICY MAKING; UNITED NATIONS FRAMEWORK CONVENTION ON CLIMATE CHANGE;

EID: 84994157874     PISSN: 14693062     EISSN: 17527457     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/14693062.2016.1218320     Document Type: Article

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