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Reacting to multiple tipping points

Nature Climate Change volume 6, pages 442–443 (2016)Cite this article

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When setting carbon prices in a warming world, policymakers must be cognizant of the potential economic and environmental consequences of the risk of multiple, interrelated catastrophes.

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