Reducing Urban Greenhouse Gas Footprints

Scientific Reports

Volumn 7, Issue 1, 2017, Pages

  Pichler, Peter Paul ^a   Zwickel, Timm ^a   Chavez, Abel ^b   Kretschmer, Tino ^a   Seddon, Jessica ^c   Weisz, Helga ^a,d  

^a POTSDAM INSTITUTE FOR CLIMATE IMPACT RESEARCH   (Germany)

^b WESTERN STATE COLORADO UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c WORLD RESOURCES INSTITUTE   (United States)

^d HUMBOLDT UNIVERSITY   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CITY; GERMANY; GREENHOUSE GAS; HOUSEHOLD; HUMAN; MEXICO CITY; NATIONAL CAPITAL TERRITORY OF DELHI; NEW YORK; ARTICLE;

EID: 85033451781     PISSN: None     EISSN: 20452322     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/s41598-017-15303-x     Document Type: Article

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