In this working paper we place scenarios of Austria's transition to a green economy in a global context of efforts of international community to limit global warming to the levels outlined in the Paris Agreement. To this end we propose a method of deriving robust and physically grounded budgets...

In 2016 the UN defined 232 unique indicators to evaluate progress in pursuit of its Sustainable Development Goals. Indicator 9.4.1, CO 2, emissions per unit of value added (CO 2 /GDP), can provide a measure of the decoupling of greenhouse gas emissions and economic growth as represented by the...