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.

Since the wedges concept is ... Full Story »

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Fabrice Florin
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 by Fabrice Florin - Jun. 7, 2010

Informative report on the scope of carbon emissions cuts needed to avoid dramatic climate change, with a helpful introduction to tools and resources for reaching that goal. This academic publication from Princeton's Carbon Mitigation Initiative offers some good factual information, but doesn't provide other viewpoints on this topic. A worthwhile read on the concept of stabilization wedges.

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