TY - JOUR
AU - Wang, C.
AB - The Kyoto Protocol allows reductions in emissions of several ‘greenhouse’ gases to be credited against a CO2-equivalent emissions limit, calculated using ‘global warming potential’ indices for each gas. 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. Extending the Kyoto Protocol to 2100 without more severe emissions reductions shows little difference between the two strategies in climate and ecosystem effects. 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.
TI - Multi-gas assessment of the Kyoto Protocol
JF - Nature
DO - 10.1038/44069
DA - 1999-10-07
UR - https://www.deepdyve.com/lp/springer-journals/multi-gas-assessment-of-the-kyoto-protocol-RU3gLjUavB
SP - 549
EP - 555
VL - 401
IS - 6753
DP - DeepDyve
ER -