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Achieving low-cost emissions targets

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There has been much discussion about ways to reduce the rate of atmospheric accumulation of carbon dioxide and other greenhouse gases. What are the key economic and policy issues concerning the timing of such efforts?

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  1. Departments of Biological Sciences and of Economics, Stanford University, Stanford, 94305-5020, California, USA

    Stephen H. Schneider & Lawrence H. Goulder

  2. Both authors are co-appointed in the Institute for International Studies at Stanford.,

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Schneider, S., Goulder, L. Achieving low-cost emissions targets. Nature 389, 13–14 (1997). https://doi.org/10.1038/37861

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