Emissions – the ‘business as usual’ story is misleading

2020/01/29 by Zeke Hausfather, Glen P. Peters · 41 citations
Decision Sciences · Economics, Econometrics and Finance · Environmental Science · #Atmospheric and Environmental Gas Dynamics #Climate Change Policy and Economics #demographic modeling and climate adaptation

paper · pdf · doi:10.1038/d41586-020-00177-3

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