Four agendas for research and policy on emissions mitigation and well-being

Autor: J. Timmons Roberts, Julia K. Steinberger, Thomas Dietz, William F. Lamb, Richard York, Andrew K. Jorgenson, Jennifer E. Givens, Paul Baer, Juliet B. Schor
Jazyk: angličtina
Rok vydání: 2020
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Zdroj: Global Sustainability, Vol 3 (2020)
Druh dokumentu: article
ISSN: 2059-4798
DOI: 10.1017/sus.2019.25
Popis: The climate crisis requires nations to achieve human well-being with low national levels of carbon emissions. Countries vary from one another dramatically in how effectively they convert resources into well-being, and some nations with low levels of emissions have relatively high objective and subjective well-being. We identify urgent research and policy agendas for four groups of countries with either low or high emissions and well-being indicators. Least studied are those with low well-being and high emissions. Understanding social and political barriers to switching from high-carbon to lower-carbon modes of production and consumption, and ways to overcome them, will be fundamental.
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