Towards demand-side solutions for mitigating climate change

Nature Climate Change

Volumn 8, Issue 4, 2018, Pages 268-271

  Creutzig, Felix ^a,b   Roy, Joyashree ^c   Lamb, William F ^a   Azevedo, Inês M L ^d   Bruine De Bruin, Wändi ^d,e   Dalkmann, Holger ^f   Edelenbosch, Oreane Y ^g   Geels, Frank W ^h   Grubler, Arnulf ⁱ   Hepburn, Cameron ^j   Hertwich, Edgar G ^k   Khosla, Radhika ^l   Mattauch, Linus ^j   Minx, Jan C ^a,e   Ramakrishnan, Anjali ^a,b   Rao, Narasimha D ⁱ   Steinberger, Julia K ^e   Tavoni, Massimo ^g   Ürge Vorsatz, Diana ^m   Weber, Elke U ⁿ  

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

^b TECHNISCHE UNIVERSITÄT BERLIN   (Germany)

^c JADAVPUR UNIVERSITY   (India)

^d CARNEGIE MELLON UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^e UNIVERSITY OF LEEDS   (United Kingdom)

^f International Partnership on Religion and Sustainable Development   (Germany)

^g FONDAZIONE ENI ENRICO MATTEI   (Italy)

^h UNIVERSITY OF MANCHESTER   (United Kingdom)

ⁱ International Institute for Systems Analysis   (Austria)

^j UNIVERSITY OF OXFORD   (United Kingdom)

^k Yale University   (United States)

^l CENTRE FOR POLICY RESEARCH   (India)

^m CENTRAL EUROPEAN UNIVERSITY   (Hungary)

ⁿ PRINCETON UNIVERSITY   (United States)

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Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CLIMATE CHANGE; DEMAND-SIDE MANAGEMENT; MITIGATION; POLICY MAKING; SUPPLY CHAIN MANAGEMENT;

EID: 85044965292     PISSN: 1758678X     EISSN: 17586798     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/s41558-018-0121-1     Document Type: Review

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