Carbon footprints of 13 000 cities

Environmental Research Letters

Volumn 13, Issue 6, 2018, Pages

  Moran, Daniel ^a   Kanemoto, Keiichiro ^b   Jiborn, Magnus ^c   Wood, Richard ^a   Többen, Johannes ^a   Seto, Karen C ^d  

^a NORWEGIAN UNIVERSITY OF SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY   (Norway)

^b SHINSHU UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^c LUND UNIVERSITY   (Sweden)

^d Yale School of the Environment   (United States)

Author keywords

cities; footprint; MRIO; scope 3

Indexed keywords

DIGITAL STORAGE; ENVIRONMENTAL IMPACT; POPULATION STATISTICS; UNCERTAINTY ANALYSIS;

CARBON EMISSIONS; CITIES; FOOTPRINT; LOCAL GOVERNMENT; MODEL UNCERTAINTIES; MRIO; PURCHASING POWER; SCOPE 3;

CARBON FOOTPRINT;

ATMOSPHERIC POLLUTION; CARBON EMISSION; CARBON FOOTPRINT; EMISSION INVENTORY; EUROPEAN UNION; GLOBAL PERSPECTIVE; INCOME; MODELING; URBAN AREA; URBAN POLLUTION;

CHINA; JAPAN; UNITED STATES;

EID: 85049781665     PISSN: 17489318     EISSN: 17489326     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1088/1748-9326/aac72a     Document Type: Article

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