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Quantifying historical carbon and climate debts among nations

Authors :
H. Damon Matthews
Source :
Nature Climate Change. 6:60-64
Publication Year :
2015
Publisher :
Springer Science and Business Media LLC, 2015.

Abstract

Contributions to historical climate change vary substantially among nations. A new method of quantifying historical inequalities using carbon and climate debts can inform discussions about responsibility for cutting emissions in the future.

Subjects

Subjects :
010504 meteorology & atmospheric sciences
Inequality
Natural resource economics
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Climate change
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010501 environmental sciences
Environmental Science (miscellaneous)
01 natural sciences
Climate change mitigation
chemistry
Environmental protection
Debt
Economics
Carbon
Social Sciences (miscellaneous)
0105 earth and related environmental sciences
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ISSN :
17586798 and 1758678X
Volume :
6
Database :
OpenAIRE
Journal :
Nature Climate Change
Accession number :
edsair.doi...........3d2038d6563a1dd64320a936e370e0c9
Full Text :
https://doi.org/10.1038/nclimate2774
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