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Recently, policy analysis has begun to focus on CO2 concentration limits as possible objectives of policy toward climate change. Wigley et al (1996), for example, consider alternative emissions paths designed to achieve one of several possible concentration targets in a given time frame. They argue that some emission paths will have much higher economic costs of achieving a given target, while producing only slightly lower global mean temperature and sea level rises during the period of transition to the ultimate concentration target.
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Peck, S.C., Teisberg, T.J. (1999). Co2 concentration limits, the costs and benefits of control, and the potential for international agreement. In: Carraro, C. (eds) International Environmental Agreements on Climate Change. Fondazione Eni Enrico Mattei (Feem) Series on Economics, Energy and Environment, vol 13. Springer, Dordrecht. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-015-9169-0_4
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