The world’s biggest gamble

Earth's Future

Volumn 4, Issue 10, 2016, Pages 465-470

  Rockström, Johan ^a   Schellnhuber, Hans Joachim ^b   Hoskins, Brian ^c   Ramanathan, Veerabhadran ^d   Schlosser, Peter ^e   Brasseur, Guy Pierre ^f   Gaffney, Owen ^a,g   Nobre, Carlos ^h   Meinshausen, Malte ^b,i   Rogelj, Joeri ^j,k   Lucht, Wolfgang ^b  

^a STOCKHOLM RESILIENCE CENTRE   (Sweden)

^b POTSDAM INSTITUTE FOR CLIMATE IMPACT RESEARCH   (Germany)

^c IMPERIAL COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

^d UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^e Och Spine at New York Presbyterian Hospitals   (United States)

^f MAX PLANCK INSTITUTE FOR METEOROLOGY   (Germany)

^g ROYAL SWEDISH ACADEMY OF SCIENCES   (Sweden)

^h INSTITUTO NACIONAL DE PESQUISAS ESPACIAIS   (Brazil)

ⁱ UNIVERSITY OF MELBOURNE   (Australia)

^j INTERNATIONAL INSTITUTE FOR APPLIED SYSTEMS ANALYSIS   (Austria)

^k Land Climate Dynamics Group   (Switzerland)

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Author keywords

carbon budget; carbon roadmap; climate change; decarbonisation; Earth system; Paris Agreement

Indexed keywords

EID: 84995567043     PISSN: None     EISSN: 23284277     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/2016EF000392     Document Type: Note

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