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Multi-gas assessment of the Kyoto Protocol.

Author(s) : REILLY J., PRINN R., HARNISCH J., FITZMAURICE J., JACOBY H., KICKLIGHTER D., MELILLO J., STONE P., SOKOLOV A., WANG C.

Type of article: Article

Summary

Using an integrated global-systems model, it is shown that a multi-gas control strategy could greatly reduce the costs of fulfilling the Kyoto Protocol compared with a CO2-only strategy. Under a more stringent emissions policy, the use of global warming potentials as applied in the Kyoto Protocol leads to considerably more mitigation of climate change for multi-gas strategies than for the (supposedly equivalent) CO2-only control, thus emphasizing the limits of global warming potentials as a tool for political decisions.

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  • Original title: Multi-gas assessment of the Kyoto Protocol.
  • Record ID : 2000-0487
  • Languages: English
  • Subject: Regulation, Environment
  • Source: Nature - vol. 401 - n. 6753
  • Publication date: 1999/10/07
  • Document available for consultation in the library of the IIR headquarters only.

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