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Principles of decarbonization politics

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Climate change mitigation politics is not delivering on climate targets. Recent research suggests that a general formal framework that represents the behaviour of citizens, consumers, firms and parties explains why.

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  1. Faculty of Economics and Management, Technical University of Berlin, Berlin, Germany

    Linus Mattauch

  2. Potsdam Institute for Climate Impact Research, Potsdam, Germany

    Linus Mattauch

  3. Institute for New Economic Thinking and School of Geography and the Environment, University of Oxford, Oxford, UK

    Linus Mattauch

  4. Smith School of Enterprise and the Environment, University of Oxford, Oxford, UK

    Sugandha Srivastav

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Mattauch, L., Srivastav, S. Principles of decarbonization politics. Nat. Clim. Chang. 13, 503–504 (2023). https://doi.org/10.1038/s41558-023-01663-y

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