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How civil engineers can help the UK meet the Paris Agreement on climate

Feb 1, 2017

Abstract

Matthew Ives and Scott Thacker from the University of Oxford’s Environmental Change Institute explain how civil engineers can help to fulfil the UK’s commitment to the recent Paris climate agreement through strategic infrastructure intervention and new technologies.

Authors

Ives, M. and Thacker, S.

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