Climate-change Strategy Needs to Be Robust

Robert J. Lempert, Michael E. Schlesinger

ResearchPosted on rand.org 2001Published in: Nature, v. 412, no. 6845, Correspondence, July 26, 2001, p.375

Decision-makers need to develop a climate policy acceptable to groups with many different estimates of the likelihood of alternative futures, and may tend to rely on strategies that work reasonably well instead of alternatives across a wide range of plausible scenarios. The authors agreed with a recommendation for use of ensembles of multiple scenarios to capture what is known about the long-term climate future.

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  • Copyright: Nature Publishing Group
  • Availability: Non-RAND
  • Year: 2001
  • Pages: 1
  • DOI: https://doi.org/10.7249/pubs
  • Document Number: EP-200107-19

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