What can we learn from consumption-based carbon footprints at different spatial scales? Review of policy implications

Background : Current climate change mitigation policies, including the Paris Agreement, are based on territorial greenhouse gas (GHG) accounting. This neglects the understanding of GHG emissions embodied in trade. As a solution, consumption-based accounting (CBA) that reveals the lifecycle emissions...

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Main Authors: Juudit Ottelin, Sanna Ala-Mantila, Jukka Heinonen, Thomas Wiedmann, Jack Clarke, Seppo Junnila
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: IOP Publishing 2019-01-01
Series:Environmental Research Letters
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Online Access:https://doi.org/10.1088/1748-9326/ab2212