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DOI	10.1038/s41558-020-0831-z
	Reduction in greenhouse gas emissions from national climate legislation
	Eskander S.M.S.U.; Fankhauser S.
发表日期	2020
ISSN	1758-678X
起始页码	750
结束页码	756
卷号	10 期号:8
英文摘要	The international response to climate change has been inadequate, but not zero. There are 1,800 climate change laws worldwide. We use panel data on legislative activity in 133 countries over the period 1999–2016 to identify statistically the short-term and long-term impact of climate legislation. Each new law reduces annual carbon dioxide (CO2) emissions per unit of gross domestic product by 0.78% nationally in the short term (during the first three years) and by 1.79% in the long term (beyond three years). The results are driven by parliamentary acts and by countries with a strong rule of law. In 2016, current climate laws were associated with an annual reduction in global CO2 emissions of 5.9 GtCO2, more than the US CO2 output that year. Cumulative CO2 emissions savings from 1999 to 2016 amount to 38 GtCO2, or one year’s worth of global CO2 output. The impact on other greenhouse gases is much lower. © 2020, The Author(s), under exclusive licence to Springer Nature Limited.
语种	英语
scopus关键词	carbon dioxide; carbon emission; climate change; emission control; environmental legislation; environmental planning; greenhouse gas; panel data; savings; United States
来源期刊	Nature Climate Change
文献类型	期刊论文
条目标识符	http://gcip.llas.ac.cn/handle/2XKMVOVA/142159
作者单位	Kingston University London, Surrey, United Kingdom; Grantham Research Institute on Climate Change and the Environment and Centre for Climate Change Economics and Policy, London School of Economics and Political Science, London, United Kingdom
推荐引用方式 GB/T 7714	Eskander S.M.S.U.,Fankhauser S.. Reduction in greenhouse gas emissions from national climate legislation[J],2020,10(8).
APA	Eskander S.M.S.U.,&Fankhauser S..(2020).Reduction in greenhouse gas emissions from national climate legislation.Nature Climate Change,10(8).
MLA	Eskander S.M.S.U.,et al."Reduction in greenhouse gas emissions from national climate legislation".Nature Climate Change 10.8(2020).