This is where you are given the freedom to put it all together and craft a roadmap for a sustainable, prosperous future. We’ll pretend you have been granted the authority to completely control global carbon emissions and your job is to put together an emissions scenario for the next 200 years that accomplishes 4 things:
- Keeps the global temperature change below 2.0°C (relative to pre-industrial, so about 1°C above the present temperature).
- Meets the energy demands of the world’s population.
- Leaves us in the year 2200 with at least another 100 years worth of fossil fuel carbon.
- Minimizes the per capita costs (combination of climate damages and costs related to shifting to other forms of energy). We’ll assume that the plan that costs the least will leave more money for economic growth and prosperity.
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