Stabilization Wedges

Princeton University, Carbon Mitigation Initiative | Jun. 7, 2010 (Special Report)

To get on track to avoiding dramatic climate change, the world must avoid emitting about 200 billion tons of carbon, or eight 25 billion ton wedges, over the next 50 years.

This is the heart of the Carbon Mitigation Initiative's (CMI) Stabilization Wedges concept, a simple framework for understanding both the carbon emissions cuts needed to avoid dramatic climate change and the tools already available to do so.

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by Alexander Rose - Jun. 7, 2010

The "Climate Wedges" principle is the basis for understanding how we might use low carbon energy sources to offset coal and oil for the future. This work was done at Princeton by Socolow et al and this well done interactive site gives a good overview, intro, source info, and even allows you to play the "wedges game" Very well done.

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