Sequencing to ratchet up climate policy stringency

Sequencing to ratchet up climate policy stringency

Sequencing to ratchet up climate policy stringency, Published online: 28 September 2018; doi:10.1038/s41558-018-0287-6

Meeting the Paris Agreement climate goals requires increasingly ambitious climate policy. A framework for ratcheting up stringency through policy sequencing is proposed and illustrated using the cases of Germany and California, USA.