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Policy Brief

Why achieving the Paris Agreement requires reduced overall consumption and production

Eva AlfredssonStrategic Environmental Studies, KTH Royal Institute of Technology, Stockholm, Sweden; Correspondence[email protected] [email protected]
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Magnus BengtssonIndependent Researcher, Tokyo, Japan; ORCID Iconhttp://orcid.org/0000-0002-3493-8422
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Halina Szejnwald BrownDepartment of International Development, Community and Environment, Clark University, Worcester, MA, USA;
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Cindy IsenhourDepartment of Anthropology, University of Maine, Orono, ME, USA; ORCID Iconhttp://orcid.org/0000-0001-8413-1558
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Sylvia LorekSustainable Europe Research Institute, Overath, Germany; ORCID Iconhttp://orcid.org/0000-0003-1518-9697
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Dimitris StevisDepartment of Political Science, Colorado State University, Fort Collins, CO, USA;
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Philip VergragtGeorge Perkins Marsh Institute, Clark University, Worcester, MA, USA; ;Tellus Institute, Cambridge, MA, USA
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Pages 1-5 | Received 30 Jan 2018, Accepted 21 Mar 2018, Published online: 08 May 2018

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