Socioeconomic factors and future challenges of the goal of limiting the increase in global average temperature to 1.5 °C

The Paris Agreement has confirmed that the ultimate climate policy goal is to hold the increase in the global average temperature to well below 2 °C above pre-industrial levels and to pursue efforts to limit the increase to 1.5 °C. Moving the goal from 2 °C to 1.5 °C calls for much more concerted ef...

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Main Authors: Jing-Yu Liu, Shinichiro Fujimori, Kiyoshi Takahashi, Tomoko Hasegawa, Xuanming Su, Toshihiko Masui
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Taylor & Francis Group 2018-09-01
Series:Carbon Management
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Online Access:http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/17583004.2018.1477374