• DOI:10.5194/ESD-3-49-2012
Corpus ID: 14352210

Comparison of physically- and economically-based CO 2 -equivalences for methane

@article{Boucher2012ComparisonOP,
  title={Comparison of physically- and economically-based CO 2 -equivalences for methane},
  author={O. Boucher},
  journal={Earth System Dynamics Discussions},
  year={2012},
  volume={3},
  pages={49-61}
}

O. Boucher

Published 2012

Environmental Science

Earth System Dynamics Discussions

Abstract. There is a controversy on the role methane (and other short-lived species) should play in climate mitigation policies, and there is no consensus on what an optimal methane CO2-equivalence should be. We revisit this question by discussing some aspects of physically-based (i.e. global- warming potential or GWP and global temperature change potential or GTP) and socio-economically-based climate metrics. To this effect we use a simplified global damage potential (GDP) that was introduced… CONTINUE READING

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