How well do you think your proposal does in meeting the Paris climategoals?

Environmental Science by Geoffrey

En-ROADS Climate Change Simulation Report

Section 1: Plan

1. Policies: Summarize your plan using the template provided at the end of this document. You will share three screenshots of specific graphs that caught your attention and are worth noting. While normally, in academic writing, all graphs, tables and figures would go at the end of the document, since this is a “polished” report, you should include each table/graph/figure at the end of section 1.

Section 2: Meeting the Goals

  1. Climate: How well do you think your proposal does in meeting the Paris climategoals? If it does not meet the goal, why is this acceptable to you?
  2. Economy: If the world followed your recommendations, how would the economy be different at different points in the future e.g., 2030, 2050 and 2100? In what ways would it be better? In what ways would it be worse?

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  1. Equity: How can your proposal strive to increase equity across nations and different peoples?
  2. Environment: To what extent might your proposal mitigate other environmental challenges (e.g., biodiversity, pollution, water and air quality)? To what extent might your proposal cause or worsen other environmental problems?
  3. Realism without cynicism: What would it take for your proposal to be realized? What barriers might arise in the implementation of your proposals, and how might they be addressed? To get started, what actions and priorities are needed as soon as possible from businesses, civil society, governments, or the public?
  4. Winners/Losers: Who would be the biggest winners and losers globally in your proposed future? Create a table with two columns for winners and losers.

Section 3: Individual Reflections

For this section of the submission, there should be a page (pages) for each member of your group. Please start each individual’s answers to questions 8, 9, and 10 on a separate page and label that page with the writer’s name. This section is graded individually, so the group is not penalized if some members do not complete the section (members who do not complete this section will receive 0 points for it).

  1. Surprises from En-ROADS: What surprised you about the behavior of the energy and climate system as captured in the simulation? For example, what actions had a bigger or smaller effect than you thought? Did you discover why that might be?
  2. Feelings: How did your insights from the model and this assignment make you feel? (Feelings as in emotions, not thoughts.)

10.Hope & Personal Action: Do any trends in the world give you hope that your proposals are possible? What can you personally do to help create the necessary changes?