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Free-riders to forerunners

Nature Geoscience volume 8, pages 895–898 (2015)Cite this article

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Multi-actor integrated assessment models based on well-being concepts beyond GDP could support policymakers by highlighting the interrelation of climate change mitigation and other important societal problems.

Hope has been rekindled this year that the long-standing deadlock in climate negotiations may finally be overcome: in June, the G7 countries agreed to terminate fossil energy use by the end of this century. There are other signs, too, of a revived political concern for the climate problem, prior to the United Nations Climate Change Conference in Paris in December. Yet, despite this increased political attention, it is not clear that the obstacles for progress in climate policy have really been removed.

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Figure 1: Diagram of an actor-based north (N)–south (S) euro crisis model.

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The research leading to these results has received funding from the European Community's Seventh Framework Programme under Grant Agreements No. 308601 (COMPLEX) and No. 295068 (EuRuCAS).

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  1. Max Planck Institute for Meteorology, Bundesstraße 53, Hamburg, 20146, Germany

    Klaus Hasselmann

  2. Global Climate Forum, Neue Promenade 6, Berlin, 10178, Germany

    Klaus Hasselmann & Carlo Jaeger

  3. Climate Service Center Germany (GERICS), Chilehaus Eingang B, Fischertwiete 1, Hamburg, 20095, Germany

    Roger Cremades

  4. Departments of Geosciences and Economics, Research Unit Sustainability and Global Change, Center for Earth System Research and Sustainability, University of Hamburg, Grindelberg 5, Hamburg, D-20144, Germany

    Roger Cremades

  5. Centre for Studies in Technology and Sustainable Development, Faculty of Behavioral, Management and Social Sciences, University of Twente, PO Box 217, Enschede, 7500 AE, the Netherlands

    Tatiana Filatova

  6. Observatorio para una Cultura del Territorio, Calle de Duque de Fernán Núñez, 2, 1, Madrid, 28014, Spain

    Richard Hewitt

  7. Beijing Normal University, No. 19, XinJieKouWai Street, Beijing, 100875, HaiDian District, China

    Carlo Jaeger

  8. Arizona State University, 1151 S Forest Avenue, Tempe, 85281, Arizona, USA

    Carlo Jaeger

  9. Nansen International Environmental and Remote Sensing Centre, 14th Line 7, Office 49, St. Petersburg, 199034, Vasilievsky Island, Russia

    Dmitry Kovalevsky

  10. Department of Geo-information Processing, Faculty of Geo-Information Science and Earth Observation, University of Twente, PO Box 217, 7500, AE, the Netherlands

    Alexey Voinov

  11. Newcastle University, School of Arts and Cultures, Newcastle upon Tyne, NE1 7RU, UK

    Nick Winder

  12. Agora for Biosystems, Sigtuna Foundation, Box 57, Sigtuna, 193 22, Sweden

    Nick Winder

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K.H. wrote the paper, R.C., T.F., R.H., C.J., D.K., A.V. and N.W. modified and extended the paper, K.H. and D.K. produced the model.

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