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Bridging the greenhouse-gas emissions gap

Twenty-one coherent major initiatives could together stimulate sufficient reductions by 2020 to bridge the global greenhouse-gas emissions gap.

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Blok, K., Höhne, N., van der Leun, K. et al. Bridging the greenhouse-gas emissions gap. Nature Clim Change 2, 471–474 (2012). https://doi.org/10.1038/nclimate1602

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