Prioritizing climate change mitigation: An assessment using Malaysia to reduce carbon emissions in future

Abstract

This study examines empirically climate change related vulnerability impacts, and remedial options as an optimal and applicable strategy by prioritizing needs in climate change mitigation over 95 years. An Empirical Downscaling Dynamic Integrated model of Climate and the Economy (EDDICE) is deployed using an optimal scenario for Malaysia against a baseline scenario of existing conditions following the top-down disaggregation strategy recommended by other studies.

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Keywords

Climate change, Carbon emission projections, Mitigation policy

Citation

Al-Amin, A. Q., Rasiah, R., & Chenayah, S. (2015). Prioritizing climate change mitigation: an assessment using Malaysia to reduce carbon emissions in future. Environmental Science & Policy, 50, 24-33.

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