Decoupling Economic Growth from Fossil Fuels
The decoupling of fossil fuels from economic growth has not been imaginable for most of the industrial era but is now underway. The data for this are presented for the world and for typical nations. The mechanisms behind this are outlined and suggest that climate change goals to end poverty and to a...
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2017
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| description | The decoupling of fossil fuels from economic growth has not been imaginable for most of the industrial era but is now underway. The data for this are presented for the world and for typical nations. The mechanisms behind this are outlined and suggest that climate change goals to end poverty and to achieve the phasing out of fossil fuels are achievable if the trends are mainstreamed. |
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| spelling | curtin-20.500.11937-647012019-02-14T07:36:28Z Decoupling Economic Growth from Fossil Fuels Newman, Peter The decoupling of fossil fuels from economic growth has not been imaginable for most of the industrial era but is now underway. The data for this are presented for the world and for typical nations. The mechanisms behind this are outlined and suggest that climate change goals to end poverty and to achieve the phasing out of fossil fuels are achievable if the trends are mainstreamed. 2017 Journal Article http://hdl.handle.net/20.500.11937/64701 10.4236/me.2017.86055 http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/ Scientific Research Publishing fulltext |
| spellingShingle | Newman, Peter Decoupling Economic Growth from Fossil Fuels |
| title | Decoupling Economic Growth from Fossil Fuels |
| title_full | Decoupling Economic Growth from Fossil Fuels |
| title_fullStr | Decoupling Economic Growth from Fossil Fuels |
| title_full_unstemmed | Decoupling Economic Growth from Fossil Fuels |
| title_short | Decoupling Economic Growth from Fossil Fuels |
| title_sort | decoupling economic growth from fossil fuels |
| url | http://hdl.handle.net/20.500.11937/64701 |